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...Green Bay, Wisconsin, and Atlantic City, New Jersey, admitted to a lieutenant, "It feels good out there." This campaign is different from his previous outings. Discipline is now a more regular companion. Prior to his announcement swing in April, Dole spent some time at his Washington headquarters delivering his stump speech to an empty TV studio. He wasn't keen about the idea-and he didn't deliver it very well. But his aides first tested the speech's broad themes with a focus group of Republican men and women in Fredericksburg, Virginia. Next they showed the tape...
Hours before Newt Gingrich was to begin his precedent-setting prime time address, President Clinton hit the stump toremind America that the chief executive still has a role in government. "I was not elected president to pile up a stack of vetoes -- I was elected president to change the direction of America," Clinton told the American Society of Newspaper Editors in Dallas. He warned that the GOP had better modify its "Contract With America" proposals if they were to become law. So far, he said, he is inclined to support only the line-item veto and a $16 billion spending...
Viewers tuning in to Baghdad TV last September got a ghastly glimpse of the Iraqi government in action. First came a close-up of a severed human hand, then one of a man clutching the bloody stump of his forearm, a black cross branded on his forehead. The newscaster said the man had been punished for stealing a television...
...power made Democrats soft, logy, too eager to compromise; they showed compassion but rarely passion. By the time Limbaugh went national in 1988, the Dems could do little but sleepwalk into the propeller. How could they know that the winning attitude of the '90s -- on radio and on the stump -- would be to show a killer instinct...
...said, 60 programs will be streamlined into four). The result, Clinton said, would be "a leaner, not a meaner, government." And he reiterated his commitment to lobbying and campaign reform and called for a more upbeat national dialogue: "We have got to be a community again." The final promise, stump-style: "My rule for the next two years will be country first, and politics as usual dead last...