Word: sought
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...evening program had a softer tone, as Republicans sought to avoid the harder-edged speeches that were common at the party's 1992 convention. Mixed in with staple GOP calls for less regulation, lower taxes and moving people from welfare to work were poignant appeals from a woman and child with AIDS and a reminder that a smaller government need not be indifferent...
...father was among three former presidents honored as Republicans sought to revive the formula that, until Clinton won four years ago, had kept the White House in GOP hands for 20 of the previous 24 years...
...identify, Perot will need to come up with some answers this time around. He has wavered on prospective solutions. He initially derided the balanced-budget amendment as a gimmick and then embraced it. He pressed for a substantial increase in the gas tax, then eased off it. He has sought advice from his circle of friends and advisers, but some are dismayed by the candidate's refusal to evolve, suggesting that he's like a Vegas comedian who uses the same jokes over and over, refusing to freshen...
...Even his wife is for him only because he is her ticket to power...[He] will be a disaster. But it will give me leeway to criticize him on Russian aid and everything else he screws up. With Bush I had to be restrained." But when the fledgling President sought Nixon's counsel on foreign policy, Nixon found him "very respectful with no sickening bulls----...It was the best conversation with a President I've had...This guy does a lot of thinking." Later, as his advice was downplayed or ignored altogether, Nixon reversed field again. Still, he acknowledged that...
...since it could hardly help their election prospects--or Dole's--to let the President out-tough them on this issue. Congress has already made some important concessions to his earlier objections. The Medicaid block grants that Clinton called a "poison pill" have been removed, and many softeners sought by the Governors have been added: child-nutrition programs, extra aid for recession-hit states, money for child care, foster care and adoption, and medical benefits for working families...