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...lost part of a leg in Viet Nam, earned celebrity status by leaving his profitable restaurant and sport-center business in 1982 to knock Republican Governor Charles Thone out of the statehouse. While leading a reform-minded administration, he also dated movie star Debra Winger, then declared before his term ended two years ago that the "feeling is just not there" to seek re-election. Self-effacing and willing to admit mistakes, Kerrey has the kind of appeal that has led women to ask him to autograph their T shirts...
...know, and apparently love, the representatives they send to Washington. In this century, Vermont has rejected only one member of its congressional delegation who sought re-election. Thus when moderate Republican Senator Robert Stafford decided to retire after 18 years, the state's lone Congressman, seven-term Republican James Jeffords, 54, immediately was seen as his heir apparent. Jeffords had little difficulty defeating Democrat William Gray, a Burlington lawyer and former U.S. Attorney seeking his first elective office...
Background: Intern in Reagan's California Governor's office, executive in Michael Deaver's P.R. firm, Cabinet coordinator in Reagan's first term, Bush chief of staff since...
These lines of reasoning have so lowered expectations for the Bush presidency that some Washington insiders are predicting the briefest honeymoon in history, a gridlock of indecision, even the inevitability of a one-term presidency. In short, President-elect Bush appears perfectly positioned to exceed expectations yet again...
...will not be easy. Candidate Bush boxed himself in by ruling out new taxes, Social Security cuts and any weakening of defense. To even approach his balanced-budget intentions by the end of his first term, President Bush will need good luck, continued economic growth, and plenty of help from a cooperative Congress. But some Democratic leaders, even while liking Bush personally, are determined to assert their own agenda in the face of what they sense to be a weaker personality moving into the White House. Bush may get little help, even a bit of sabotage, from his own party...