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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...shoppers at a New Orleans hotel could pick George Bush's running mate, they'd select Oliver North, the indicted Iran-Contra figure. North received 36 percent of shoppers polled, topping Rep. Jack Kemp (R-N.Y.), with 24 percent support. Running dead last is Sen. Robert Dole...
What Bush needs to do to bounce back himself is select a running mate who possesses the best characteristics of the Republican party with few of its drawbacks. Thornburgh fits the description...
...weeks ago, I jokingly suggested in a column that Vice President George Bush select Edwin Meese III as his running mate for the Republican presidential ticket. By picking the attorney general, I wrote, Bush would put the sleaze factor squarely in his column and lock up the general election...
...phone companies are allowed to enter the cable business, they are expected to try to entice consumers to order such high-tech services as video telephones, home shopping and a video-on-demand service that would allow customers to select and receive movies and other programs by phone...
...inside, but just right for the TV cameras) to the careful management of the schedule to ensure that key events took place in prime time. That left network journalists in a quandary. Back in the days when political conventions actually used to conduct business, debate issues and select candidates, saturation coverage had value -- if only, as network executives liked to point out, as a quadrennial civics lesson. Now that they have become four-night campaign commercials, the lesson being taught is not so much civics as show business...