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...back taxes, has a lien on the house for $685,248. At the time of the murders, Simpson had liquid assets amounting to about half a million dollars, but they were immediately used to pay lawyers. A member of the first defense team says Simpson's financial adviser, Skip Taft, looked at everything Simpson owned but found nothing significant aside from the Rockingham house and a condominium in Manhattan, which Simpson has since sold. He did raise about $1 million with his book I Want to Tell You, and the Star paid $450,000 for the rights to use pictures...
...known royal ancestry. Even if his claim of a descent from Robert I of France were true, in 1992 he beat George Bush, whose known royal ancestry is much more prominent than Mr. Clinton's. In fact, in this century, only Theodore Roosevelt, Class of 1888, William H. Taft, Calvin Coolidge, Herbert Hoover, Franklin D. Roosevelt '04 and Bush were of royal ancestry and elected to the presidency. That means 10 presidents of the 20th century were not of royal ancestry including Presidents Harry S. Truman, Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy '40 and Ronald W. Reagan. It should...
...excite them. Forget for a moment his impeccable credentials as a cold warrior. He had spent eight years as Vice President to the pliant Dwight Eisenhower, a man the Old Right had never entirely forgiven for winning the 1952 G.O.P. nomination away from their longtime hero, Ohio Senator Robert Taft...
...remember the splendid ventings of spleen: Taft-backer Everett Dirksen in 1952, thundering down from the podium at Ike-supporter Tom Dewey: "We followed you before, and you took us down the road to defeat!" And Senator Abe Ribicoff in 1968 denouncing "Gestapo tactics in the streets of Chicago!" as Mayor Richard Daley hurled back imprecations that amazed lip readers across the country...
...Hampshirites are accustomed to surprising themselves. Representative Charles Bass, a Dole supporter, is the son of the man who created the modern New Hampshire primary in 1952. "It was done to stop Bob Taft with Ike," says Bass. "From then, we've seen how someone can come from nowhere and win here in the last three weeks." For Bass and his fellow Dole backers, the task is to keep a man from nowhere from going somewhere. No one will take...