Word: repeatable
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...prospects and record in office. In a week when Bush faced hecklers at a gathering of POW and MIA families, quayle gritted his teeth and denied that he was on the brink of being dropped from the team. When he turned up on CNN'S Larry King Live to repeat that line, however, he seemed to provide his own escape clause. "Believe me, if I thought that I was hurting the ticket, I'd be gone," he said -- even as new polls showed that half or more of voters would approve if Bush dropped him. The Vice President was further...
...acceptance speech, which adroitly pitched the Democratic tent in the middle- class backyard. The President appears to have noticed too; he spent the week fishing -- but at the Wyoming ranch of Secretary of State James Baker, the Bush campaign chairman in 1988 who may sign on for a repeat engagement...
...team of Bill Clinton and Al Gore aimed to repeat the Carter performance by using Clinton's strong base among Southern blacks, while benefiting from a three-way split of the white vote with George Bush and Ross Perot. Clinton, says senior strategist James Carville, "is the first candidate since Carter to have significant black support in his own right. He has the network. He has the record." Some key Southern Democrats, including Carter's former press secretary Jody Powell, estimate that with Perot in the race they needed only about 20% of the white vote, plus the black vote...
...When I repeat to Stephen Smith, a key aide in Clinton's first term as Governor, John Brummett's claim that Clinton is more Yale and Oxford than Arkansas, Smith says, "He is more Georgetown than Yale." I ask Clinton if he agrees with Smith. "Yes. At Yale I had to work at a number of jobs. At Georgetown I had only one outside job. It was my first time away from home, and I had a whole range of things to learn." Also, Arkansas kept intruding. His one job was in Fulbright's Senate office. Clinton took roommates from...
...recitations on everything from education loans to women's rights. His class-president cool was broken just once, when an avowed supporter asked if Clinton would clear up his stance on the Gennifer Flowers allegations: "Just skip any weasel words and give us a | direct answer." Clinton proceeded to repeat his familiar weasel words: Flowers' story about their alleged affair was "not the truth," the Clinton marriage has "had some troubles," he and his wife still "love each other very much...