Word: sams
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Chairman Bob Slagle, a Gore supporter, fears that Jackson will nail even more left-wing planks into the platform than were there in 1984. "If Dukakis gets pictured as soft on defense," says Slagle, "he's in a ton of trouble down here." Slagle's solution: lure Georgia Senator Sam Nunn onto the ticket by offering to make him Secretary of Defense as well as Vice President. That unorthodox approach would compensate for Dukakis' lack of expertise in national security affairs, but it would be a confession of weakness on his part. A choice for running mate is supposed...
What went wrong? In fact, Gore's run for the Oval Office was always a long shot. A freshman Senator who entered the race only after more notable Southern moderates such as Sam Nunn and Charles Robb had shied at the gate, Gore did well to survive until the finals. "If I had disappeared from the earth for six months and came back at the end of April to find that Al Gore was one of three candidates left, my reaction would have been near disbelief," says his friend Carter Eskew, a Washington political consultant...
Overshadowing everything was Gore's inability to develop a consistent message or convey a clear sense of who he is. First he ran as Sam Nunn, differentiating himself from the Democratic pack on defense and foreign policy by speaking loudly about carrying a big stick. Then he ran as Richard Gephardt, picking up the hot populist rhetoric of the fading Missouri Congressman. After that came a Gary Hart phase, as Gore briefly cast himself as the candidate of the future against Dukakis' politics of the past. Finally, in New York, Gore ran at times as virtually a Likud Party candidate...
Europe: Christopher Redman London: Christopher Ogden Paris: Jordan Bonfante, Adam Zagorin Bonn: John Kohan Rome: Sam Allis, Cathy Booth Eastern Europe: Kenneth W. Banta Moscow: James O. Jackson, Ann Blackman Jerusalem: Johanna McGeary Cairo: Dean Fischer, David S. Jackson Nairobi: James Wilde Johannesburg: Bruce W. Nelan New Delhi: Ross H. Munro Bangkok: Dean Brelis Beijing: Sandra Burton Hong Kong: William Stewart, Jay Branegan Tokyo: Barry Hillenbrand, Yukinori Ishikawa, Kumiko Makihara Ottawa: Peter Stoler Mexico City: John Borrell, John Moody Rio de Janeiro: Laura Lopez...
Europe: Christopher Redman London: Christopher Ogden Paris: Jordan Bonfante, / Adam Zagorin Bonn: John Kohan Rome: Sam Allis, Cathy Booth Eastern Europe: Kenneth W. Banta Moscow: James O. Jackson, Ann Blackman Jerusalem: Johanna McGeary Cairo: Dean Fischer, David S. Jackson Nairobi: James Wilde Johannesburg: Bruce W. Nelan New Delhi: Ross H. Munro Bangkok: Dean Brelis Beijing: Sandra Burton Hong Kong: William Stewart, Jay Branegan Tokyo: Barry Hillenbrand, Yukinori Ishikawa, Kumiko Makihara Ottawa: Peter Stoler Mexico City: John Borrell, John Moody Rio de Janeiro: Laura Lopez...