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...difference isn't background: Clinton and Dole both come from small-town, lower-middle-class Middle America. Buchanan, an accountant's son from the sleepy, segregated Washington of the 1940s, falls roughly into the same range as the other two. It isn't ideology either. Two of the three are Republicans, and two are moderates; we still don't have a clean division into three categories...
...STUDENTS OF IRONY and pity, the presidential race last week offered its most piercing lessons yet. There was Bob Dole, the Dust Bowl, small-town boy who would still have the use of his right arm if the war had ended three weeks earlier, finding his fate in the pink, uncallused hands of a millionaire preppie publisher who grew up in a house with a name and claims to have honed his survival skills at summer camp...
Since his first stint at TIME, Trillin's wry political commentary, his accounts of gastronomical journeys in search of the perfect barbecue and his compassionate reportage of small-town America have appeared in the New Yorker, where he is a staff writer, in a syndicated newspaper column and in the Nation, to which he contributes a weekly poem (a genre he took up during the Bush Administration when the phrase "If you knew what John Sununu" came to him in an inspired flash). His 19th book, Messages from My Father, is to be published this spring...
...German-born wife Ernestine would face unfair questions about her father's role in Hitler's Germany (he served in the air force but had no Nazi ties). Bradley also knew that he was a wooden speaker and, despite a lifetime of achievement, feared deep down "that this small-town boy could never win the biggest contest...
Gingrich saw his big opening in 1974, when he challenged Sixth District Congressman Jack Flynt, a silver-haired, small-town patrician, very much part of the Democratic establishment. Flynt was no raving segregationist, but unlike Gingrich, he declined to talk racial justice, the environment and other populist themes. In this situation, Gingrich, with his bushy black hair, sideburns and citrus-colored double knits, came off to most people as the more liberal of the pair. He charged that Flynt was in cahoots with the lobbyists. One Gingrich campaign piece proclaimed, "Newt Gingrich ... his special interest...