Word: roberte
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) has assembled a formidable "truth squad," including Senate Minority Leader Robert Dole (R-Kan.), New Hampshire Governor John Sununu, and a host of other congressmen to crow about the Reagan administration's accomplishments and question Dukakis' record...
This was also the age of the "press lords", when publishers such as The Chicago Tribune's Colonel Robert R. McCormick, and Cissy Patterson of the Washington Times-Herald used their newspapers and their reporters to promote their personal political biases, particularly their profound hatred of Roosevelt, their opposition to the Lend-Lease program and their pro-Nazi sympathies...
Dukakis volunteers have covered the city with pro-Dukakis signs. These vastly outnumber signs put by a group calling itself "Concerned Massachusetts Democrats" which quote Harvard economist Robert Reich who claims Dukakis wasn't responsible for the "Massachusetts Miracle...
Another group eager to rain on Dukakis' parade is the Republican party. While Vice President George Bush is fishing somewhere in Wyoming, a GOP "truth squad" has been dispatched to Atlanta. Headed by the Republican's foremost hatchet-man, Kansas Sen. Robert Dole, the squad is eager to dampen the spirits of its Democratic rivals...
What can Bush do now? Pick Bob Dole? Name any movie Bob Dole has starred in. Even if Bush does choose an actor to balance out the Stewart factor, who will he turn to? Sly Stallone? Robert Mitchum? Stewart is Hollywood. He is the last of the great film giants, a guaranteed box-office smash...