Word: rest
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Dukakis campaigned without letup on his pledge to stand up for "average working families." Grabbing rest when he could on his plane, he flew to asunrise political service in Cleveland, then arally in St. Louis, where he was greeted by a bandplaying "Rock Around the Clock." Still to come wasmore campaigning on the West Coast, then anothermiddle-of-the-night flight to an Iowa rally andelection-morning appearances in Michigan...
...also better equipped to deal with the world. Dukakis believes in the rule of law, and he favors negotiation over chest-beating. He even speaks the language of much of the rest of our hemisphere. Central to his vision of the world is a commitment to human rights. Dukakis would make South African apartheid a target, and he would not continue aid to the contras...
...televised debate two weeks ago, Malone tried to label the liberal Senator's position on crime too generous for criminals and too unsympathetic for victims. Kennedy responded, "no one has to tell me the effect of violence on a family"--thereby defusing the issue for the rest of the debate...
Some political spouses resent the demands life in the public fishbowl makes on their families. One woman recalls being followed into a public rest room and accosted about her husband's position on abortion. Another describes taking a family vacation after a grueling re-election campaign, only to find the hotel telephone ringing off the hook. One political wife even carries a supply of her husband's cards to give constituents who badger her in public. Jeanne Simon, wife of Illinois Senator Paul Simon, tries to head off such pressures by carving out regular private time with the candidate...
...sure, advanced his own proposals on education and day care, but they do not seem to spring from deep personal conviction. ! Rather, they have been offered to the voters -- and may someday even be enacted into law -- to take the edge off the negativism of the rest of the Bush campaign...