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Democrats found themselves in the odd position of listening to a Republican--former Princeton football star and Heisman trophy winner Dick Kazmaier--extol former president Ronald Reagan before endorsing Bradley for the 2000 race...
Democrats found themselves in the odd position of listening to a Republican--former Princeton football star and Heisman trophy winner Dick Kazmaier--extol former president Ronald Reagan before endorsing Bradley for the 2000 race...
...MacArthur Fellowship, commonly known as the "genius grant," also includes health coverage and comes with no strings attached--the money can be used for any purpose the winner chooses...
...hunger for a winner was about the eternal appetite for access and power, but there may have been something else at work as well among Republicans who had come to view Clinton's presidency as fundamentally illegitimate. It was not just that the Republicans had all but owned the White House for years. It was that Clinton had won by stealing their issues and then selling them better than they had, had not honored the office, and it was time to get it back...
Nowhere did the zeal for a winner work to Bush's advantage as in California, a state where the G.O.P. has factions inside factions. In April 1998, Bush went West to campaign for gubernatorial hopeful Dan Lungren in Los Angeles, San Francisco and Silicon Valley. At one event, about a dozen of Lungren's biggest backers practically cornered Bush during a private conversation and pressed him to run. Bush demurred, in deference to Governor Pete Wilson, who was still considering another run at the nomination. But he winked. "I want to be your second choice," Bush told them, tipping...