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...policy. When the son talks about the need for "certainty" above all in foreign affairs, he is channeling for Dad, whose diplomatic mantra was "The enemy is uncertainty." And in public, Dad is back in the motorcade, doing three stops a day, sometimes late into the night. On the stump he touts his son's record, but there's also some satisfaction in the way the worm has turned. "The country is crying out for a restoration of dignity and respect and honor that has been missing in the White House," the elder Bush said in Michigan two weeks...
Texas Governor George W. Bush always makes reference in his stump speech to a "gap of hope." It was never quite clear what he was talking about until last week, when he fell into it somewhere between New Hampshire and South Carolina...
...Questions, let's see, up first is up front." Alan L. Keyes '72--the arch-conservative Republican presidential candidate--is taking questions after a fiery stump speech. He's spent the past half hour attacking "the radical homosexual agenda" and condemning abortion as murder...
...Many who witness his wild pronouncements from the stump are left to wonder at his, to put it delicately, sense of balance...
...eyes filled with tears. The woman's story reminded him of why he had entered the race to begin with and got him fired up all over again. And so on Thursday in Iowa, this most phlegmatic of candidates started bearing down hard, putting real passion into his stump speech, winning cheers and laughter, getting people to promise to stand up for him at the caucuses on Jan. 24. If winning in Iowa still seemed out of the question--Gore was 20 points ahead--the Bradley team could dream about a late surge in New Hampshire and beyond, and feel...