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Republican Pat Robertson, who finished a distant third to Bush and Dole inthe Super Tuesday contests, said, "Strange thingshappen in politics, so I have no reason to getout," However, Robertson, campaigning in Chicago,said he planned to buy no television ads inIllinois, which has its primary next Tuesday...
...None of us could have dreamed that [Bush] could be so strong," said Pat Robertson. He said the vice president had run a "fabulous race," and added, "The mantle of Ronald Reagan has passed to George Bush." The former television evangelist said he would remain in the race, but talked in terms of expanding his support for a campaign rerun...
More important for our time, they all had sons who were nurtured in politics. History now has summoned the sons to the struggle for the presidency, and there are echoes to be heard from long ago. The Super Tuesday performances of George Bush, Pat Robertson and Al Gore Jr. will have a profound effect on one another and, of course, the nation...
...Willis Robertson was a states'-righter opposing Bush's bold civil rights views. When Gore led the fight to expand the federal highway system, Robertson fought him. "We used to get together at prayer breakfasts," remembers Gore. "Willis used to tell good stories. He was a man of good humor...
...same time Pat Robertson had begun his broadcasting. That was never enough. Way back when Pat was a wild kid at Washington and Lee, he had inhaled the vapors of power around his dad's Senate office, where he often visited, sleeping in the Senate gym to be near great events. Yet young Robertson had a tumultuous relationship with his father. Saying he was acting on the Lord's orders to avoid politics, Pat did not help his father in the re-election run of 1966. Willis lost and left the Senate a "broken, defeated man," as described...