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Tribe has contributed generously to the campaigns of political candidates. He gave $1,500 to the campaign of Sen. Harris L. Wofford (D. Penn.), and $500 to Sen. Arlen Specter (R. Penn.), who won in a tough race in November 1991. He gave $250 to the presidential campaign of Sen. Bob Kerrey, and then gave $1,000 to the Clinton campaign. Tribe's wife Carolyn, an antique dealer, gave another $1,000 to Clinton...
Tribe also gave $750 to Democratic candidatePaul E. Tsongas during the primary campaign and$1,500 to Sen. Harris P. Wofford (D-Penn.) forWofford's successful 1991 Senate race againstformer Attorney General Richard G. Thornburgh...
Tsongas did not make the final list of six candidates: Harris Wofford, who had pulled an enormous upset by winning a Pennsylvania senatorial election in 1991; Florida Senator Bob Graham; West Virginia Senator Jay Rockefeller; Indiana Congressman Lee Hamilton; Nebraska Senator Bob Kerrey, a war-hero opponent of Clinton's in the early primaries; and Al Gore. The Tennessee Senator seemed an unlikely choice. A Southerner from a neighboring state, he hardly gives the ticket much balance, and Clinton had refused Gore's bid for support in Gore's 1988 presidential campaign. This time, though, Clinton developed such deep rapport...
...across the nation. That complicated organizational task has been assigned to Harmon and a team of political professionals. They say they have already had some success, bringing more than 2500 students to New Hampshire for the primary as well as bringing student volunteers to Pennsylvania to help elect Harris Wofford to the Senate...
...veterans: Tennessee Senator Al Gore, who has strong defense and environment credentials, and Indiana's veteran Congressman Lee Hamilton, a foreign policy expert regarded as one of the House of Representatives' wisest heads. If the job goes to either man instead of an upstart newcomer like Pennsylvania Senator Harris Wofford or Nebraska Senator Bob Kerrey, Clinton will be betting that even in a "weird" political year, more voters value Washington experience than resent...