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...seems to know for sure whether General Norman Schwarzkopf leans right or left, Republican or Democratic, so forcefully does he assert that he's an independent. Few have the least idea of what he thinks about monetary policy or school choice or quotas or global warming. Chances are, he favors a strong defense, though he has called war a "profane thing." What is most interesting is not that no one knows, but that hardly anyone cares...
...virtue in Schwarzkopf's mystery is that the general can be anything to anybody. Corporations look at him and see a take-charge CEO; universities envision a powerhouse chancellor; publishers perceive the author of a best- selling book. Above all, much of the public is enraptured by a new leader whose very appeal is that he has no platform, no party and no intention, at least so far, of running for office. Such political virginity lets people believe that Schwarzkopf, in his big, bold way, could do the heavy work of democracy without being chewed into small pieces...
...When Schwarzkopf came home from the war zone last week, a crowd gathered before dawn to foil his attempt to sneak quietly back into the country at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa. The band played a victory march and the national anthem, and the fans wearing STORMIN' NORMAN FOR PRESIDENT T shirts waved flags and yellow balloons as sea gulls wheeled overhead. "I can't describe to you the emotion that's in all our hearts," he said, with his first words on American soil in 239 days. "It's a great day to be a soldier...
...Christian, 13, daughters Jessica, 19, and Cynthia, 20, and a black Lab named Bear). He could catch up with Jeopardy and Cheers. Come Sunday, he could go to a real church and sit in a pew without sand in his boots. And while he savored his privacy, Norman Schwarzkopf could lean back and let the rest of America ponder his future...
...memoirs could fetch seven figures, his speeches $30,000 a pop. He has been mentioned as an ideal football coach (the Philadelphia Eagles) or university chancellor (Texas A&M) or business leader (Chrysler chairman Lee Iacocca is batting his eyes). Van Poole, chief of the Republican Party in Schwarzkopf's home state of Florida, is exercising monumental restraint. "I thought I'd give him a couple of weeks," he says. The hope is to persuade the general to run against popular Democratic Senator Bob Graham. "I've not talked to Schwarzkopf directly, but through a third party," says Poole...