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...rode the campaign trail, Clinton sounded like an out-and-out internationalist. His proclamations on foreign policy were full of idealism and broad hopes for an improved world. He cited Woodrow Wilson, the epitomy of internationalism, as a role model. Then-Governor Clinton supported more robust U.S. cooperation with the U.N.; he called on the Bush administration to pay off its debt to the body, and he even supported the formation of a permanent U.N. military force, something the Bush administration firmly opposed...
...defense of Dukakis, sympathetic pundits point out that the Massachusetts furlough program was instituted under Dukakis' predecessor, Republican Ed King, and that California had an almost identical program under then-Governor Ronald Reagan. They remind voters that as Vice President, Bush never objected to the furlough program for federal prisoners, even when a convicted murderer raped a woman in Arizona while on a weekend furlough...
...graduated from neither college nor law school and who took the bar exam twice before passing, Clark formed a close friendship with then-Governor Reagan in 1966. In the following years, Reagan gradually elevated Clark to a position on California's Supreme Court. Donald Wright, then Chief Justice of that court and a Reagan appointee as well, said that Clark was "not qualified by education, training or experience" to serve on the state's highest bench...
Supporters of Michael S. Dukakis say they know why the then-governor was unseated by challenger Edward J. King four years ago. Far ahead in the polls before the September primary, "Dukakis supporters were so confident of victory in 1978, that they didn't feel the need to get involved. Many didn't even think it necessary to vote," one of the current campaign pamphlets asserts...
This assessment is not a judgment of her personality but of the role she has chosen to play. She is a fiercely dedicated and protective wife. Woe unto anyone whom she catches speaking unfavorably about Ronald Reagan. When Black Panther Eldridge Cleaver attacked the then-Governor of California, Nancy was immediately on the phone. "But, honey," Reagan said, after listening for a while, "I can't have him arrested just because he said those things." Acknowledges Reagan now: "She bleeds pretty good...