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Earlier this year Davis and his wife lost their only son tragically in an auto accident, but the candidate remained in the race. A Vietnam vet, in a district that's home to Offutt Air Force Base, he campaigns with the slogan "Helping Those Who Have Helped America." But the Second is an unpredictable district--once Democratic, now Republican--and Davis has a platform that seems to straddle the ideological fence: he wants less government and supports the death penalty, but would preserve Medicare funds and student loans...
Smith, with the American Conservative Union's lifetime rating of 96%, is one of Congress' most ideologically pure members. A Vietnam vet on the Armed Services Committee, he has adamantly supported high military spending. He also wrote parts of the G.O.P. crime bill, including a provision for mandatory minimum sentences for violent criminals...
...investment, not as a public-works effort but as a communitarian one. "It would help those who help themselves," Clinton declared. As for Dole, he often uses as a metaphor the cigar boxes of cash that his neighbors in Russell, Kansas, raised for him when he was a wounded vet, while his wife says that as First Lady she will encourage Americans to give 5% of their income to charity and 5% of their time to volunteerism...
...only managed to make the killing look like a suicide but also persuaded numerous fbi agents and members of the U.S. Park Police to join in on the cover-up-all in all, a nifty feat for a White House that has yet to demonstrate it knows how to vet a nominee or hew to a position...
...Vietnam-era veteran, and I found that Wolff has portrayed masterfully that conflict's lingering aftermath and the painful rift it has left in U.S. society. Let us hope that someday soon, via efforts like Wolff's, the rest of us will reach a higher understanding of the Vietnam vet's ongoing ordeal...