Word: vision
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Above all, Kemp is a man with vision and optimism to spare, the perfect antidote to Dole's asperity and narrow focus. But the potential for conflict that he brings to the campaign is also inescapable. Kemp the supply-side tax cutter and Dole the dogged budget balancer have been ideological enemies for almost two decades. At some point the political antagonism tilted into the personal. Kemp was partly responsible for the single most painful political betrayal in Dole's life. In 1985, after the supply-side tax cuts championed by Kemp were followed by an exploding federal deficit, Dole...
Dole, however, does not, and he isn't likely to go recruiting now. "All of us have submitted vision speeches," says a Republican Senator, one of many who hoped to equip Dole with some bright flags to mark the boundaries of his beliefs so voters would know where to find him. "All of us wonder what happened to them...
...think he's forgotten, and he'd say, 'I heard all that.' That's an amazing trait." All that processing power left little air space for reflection or curiosity or wild-eyed reverie. He thrived in a place where big dreams tended to die in the details and grand vision was best left to the think tanks and the bully pulpiteers in the White House...
...continuing avalanche of O.J. Simpson books by high-profile authors was thinned by one Friday when 'Fatal Vision' author Joe McGinniss said he was abandoning his planned account of the trial. Given a front-row seat throughout the trial, McGinniss had planned to cover the story as the '13th juror' by avoiding other media coverage. But nearly a year after the event, McGinniss decided there wasn't a whole lot of there there. In a letter to his publisher explaining why he was ditching both the book and a $1.7 million advance, McGinniss said the trial "sapped my intellect...
...Dole returned to Hollywood last week to praise films that "raise our vision of life instead of dragging us down." But within a day it became clear that Citizen Dole wasn't quite sure which movies he was talking about. Having singled out Independence Day as a positive example, he decided the movie might not be appropriate for kids after...