Word: trailed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Even though I had grudgingly enjoyed those trips to Lexington and Concord back in my grammar school days, I dragged my feet along the Freedom Trail in Boston during a recent family excursion, resentful of the family patriotism that forced me to swelter outside in 90-degree weather...
...giving speeches, at charming strangers with her broad smile and soft manners, Dole's public pursuits are a daily burden. She has confided to an aide that she can imagine herself one day entering a cloistered religious order. She has admitted that her happiest moment on the campaign trail is when she shuts her hotel door at night. "Her sacrifice," says a former aide, "is being in the public eye when she doesn't want...
...says she had no epiphany, no revelation, but found solace in a theological solution. The restless, driven heart can find peace only when focused on God, and that is what Elizabeth Dole attempted to do. Now, on the campaign trail, she travels with a turquoise leather Bible that she tries to devote 30 minutes every day to reading. Says Robin Dole, the Senator's only daughter, who has been a regular on the road: "God is the most important thing in her life...
...scene repeats itself over and over on the campaign trail. Elizabeth Dole stands by, beaming, while her host, using talking points prepared by her staff, praises her work as president of the American Red Cross--in particular her role in leading its "most ambitious" effort ever, the "total transformation of the way the Red Cross collects, tests and distributes one half of the American blood supply...
While no one expects full disclosure on the campaign trail, there are crucial elements missing from this image. One of them is that Mrs. Dole's heroic restructuring campaign was largely forced on her by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration after its inspectors found the Red Cross to possess dangerously little control over its blood operations. Another is that the FDA became so fed up with the lack of progress in the first two years of her administration that the agency went to federal court to compel the Red Cross to clean up its act. In this juxtaposition...