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...team had been running background checks on a short list of Republican Governors and Senators that did not include Kemp. But from time to time Dole would startle some aides by asking, "What about the quarterback?" During the last week of July, Dole secretly dispatched his campaign manager, Scott Reed, to meet with Kemp and "test the waters." Reed was a logical go-between. He had worked on Kemp's 1988 presidential campaign and then served him as chief of staff when Kemp became Secretary of Housing and Urban Development under George Bush. But at that early meeting, neither Kemp...
...Dole tentatively asked him about it in late July, he replied that "Vice President is not something I'd be good at." Dole demurred, telling Bennett later that he would call him the next day. He didn't, but two days after the Hollywood speech Bennett phoned campaign manager Reed to reiterate that he wasn't interested. Reed called back to urge Bennett not to close the door; Dole was interested, he told him. Bennett answered only that he would think about it and get back to Reed, then left for a weekend of mountain climbing in Colorado...
...House watchers believe, already knew what her husband would do. If the First Lady had been in any real doubt about what her husband would do, Clinton watchers reasoned, Williams would have sat in to listen and report. Also, though no other participants knew it, senior policy adviser Bruce Reed had prepared only one advance draft of the speech Clinton would give, and it assumed a decision to sign (though Reed says he could have quickly revised it to defend a veto...
...Liebert, was suspended in June after she instigated a federal probe into alleged overbilling by the coalition's direct-mail vendor, Hart Conover. Coalition officials say Liebert erred by taking her complaints outside the organization. Through her attorney, Liebert says she mentioned her concerns to coalition executive director Ralph Reed, who failed to act promptly on them. Ben Hart, an owner of Hart Conover, is one of Reed's golfing chums. Hart Conover denies any wrongdoing...
...former congressmen from Buffalo, N.Y., Kemp is popular among GOP activists for his supply side economic views on economics, his staunch deficit-fighting and his opposition to abortion. Despite his strained relationship with Dole, Kemp also has a bit of an inside fix: three top campaign aides - Scott Reed, John Buckley, and Kevin Stach - worked for Kemp's 1988 campaign. -->