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BORN: Aug. 24, 1942, Atlanta EDUCATION: Stetson U, B.A., 1964; Emory U, M.A., 1968 FAMILY: Single RELIGION: Methodist MILITARY: Army, 1965-68 OCCUPATION: Motivational speaker POLITICAL CAREER: Georgia Senate, 1971-75; Georgia Secretary of State, 1983- ADDRESS: P.O. Box 7843, Atlanta...
...vice president praised Kerry and the members of the Democratic ticket while criticizing Weld, Republican presidential nominee Bob Dole and House Speaker Newt Gingrich...
...voting record for the first three terms of my office was 93 to 95 percent," Thompson said. "Other roll calls I missed were because I had permission from the speaker to vote from my desk...
...insists? Or is it a soberly calculated admission of defeat--and a final effort on behalf of the G.O.P. by a man who has devoted his life to his party? In a panic over the prospect of losing the Republican Congress, Republican National Committee chairman Haley Barbour and House Speaker Newt Gingrich have been pushing Dole toward California, where 52 House seats are up for grabs. Bearing down hard there means abandoning swing states elsewhere, so it could be damaging to whatever remains of his hopes for the presidency. But a big Dole effort could help G.O.P. congressional candidates throughout...
Last week Dole and his G.O.P. colleagues cast indignant scrutiny on the most ornate of the foreign-money controversies, in which donors connected with an Indonesian conglomerate gave large sums to the D.N.C. While no money-for-favors linkage was immediately apparent, House Speaker Newt Gingrich and other Republicans called for a probe into the curious circumstances. Among them: Last year the White House sent a routine get-well card to Hashim Ning, co-founder and major shareholder of the Lippo Group, a $6 billion insurance, banking and real estate empire controlled by Indonesian patriarch Mochtar Riady. Not long after...