Word: reformation
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...launched a charm offensive, telling insiders he admires Buchanan's common touch and thinks of him as the rival he would most like to go fishing with. Why make nice? Buchanan may bolt the G.O.P. to run for President on the ticket of Ross Perot and Jesse Ventura's Reform Party--a move that could come within a few weeks and give Buchanan the leverage to take votes from Bush in the general election. When Bush aides met last week in Austin, Texas, high on the agenda was how to make Buchanan feel wanted in the G.O.P. A senior adviser...
Despite what the Beatles said, love is not all Bush needs. Insiders say Buchanan, who made a splash early in the '92 and '96 races and then quickly ran out of money, has been persuaded that the Reform Party, with its access to state ballots and millions of dollars in federal matching funds, can finally be the platform for his nationalist and anti-free-trade arguments and his anti-Washington populism. "My gut tells me he's going to make the shift," says Pat Choate, Perot's '96 running mate, who behind the scenes has been urging Buchanan to quit...
...unclear whether Buchanan could even get the Reform nomination. Bush allies argue privately to Buchanan that the party is a snake pit of jealousies between Ventura and Perot that would sink his candidacy, and they have warned that if he leaves the G.O.P., he can never come back. According to a Bush ally, "We told Pat, 'Lose the [Reform] nomination, and you're a man without a country.'" The Bush camp has also argued that Ventura will use his power as Reform's ranking officeholder to thwart Buchanan's bid. Last week, they got help with this idea when Ventura...
...Republicans want to know. Clinton ain?t telling. The White House braved the ghosts of Nixon one more time Thursday and invoked executive privilege, waving away congressional subpoenas for documents and witnesses from the likes of Vince Foster sleuth Dan Burton (R-Ind.), chairman of the House Government Reform Committee. "The president has a moral obligation to the American people to explain why he let terrorists out of prison," Burton said Thursday...
...find that - surprise! - Democrats are just as fond of easy outs as the next party. "Don?t forget that the Democrats had the House, the Senate and the White House in 1993, and you didn?t hear much about reform then," Carney says. "It?s become a much bigger issue since the ?94, ?96 and ?98 campaigns, but there are still some Democrats who?re happy to vote for reform as long as it?s doomed to fail." (Kind of like the moderate Republicans who voted for that $792 billion tax cut that arrived DOA at the White House yesterday...