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...easy to move from competitive to combative." Dole's most acerbic period came after Gerald Ford chose him as running mate in 1976. "They needed somebody to go out in the brier patch," Dole recalls. The Kansan tore into the Democrats with a barbed zeal that turned off many wavering voters. In his televised debate with Democratic Vice-Presidential Candidate Walter Mondale, Dole's jokes did not fit the serious forum and his partisanship went too far. He suggested, for example, that World Wars I and II, Korea and Viet Nam could be called "Democrat wars...
...alarming and perplexing void that followed Haig's resignation last week, the belief took root that his consuming appetite for power was at least partly responsible for his demise. He wanted to be President. He wanted the one position still denied him in his singular zeal to straighten out this nation and reorder the world...
Advisers saw no inconsistency in the two approaches. Reagan, they say, genuinely believes in disarmament and has shaped a wide-ranging U.S. agenda toward that purpose. The President's close friend Nevada Senator Paul Laxalt says that Reagan has shown a messianic zeal on the subject since the attempt on his life in March 1981. At the same time, aides note, the President has never wavered in his suspicion of Soviet intentions, nor in his belief that only a stern policy and a rapid American military buildup can induce the U.S.S.R. to negotiate seriously on arms control...
...zeal for scribbling led to journalism; he became a major socialist writer and editor, with a talent for extremist invective. "The national flag is for us a rag to plant on a dunghill," he wrote in the years before World War I when he was a strong internationalist. But Mussolini could believe almost anything passionately, and not long after a dispute led him to split with the Socialists, he established a new party, the Fascists, molding it along the lines of his own erratic and opportunistic temperament. As he described it, the party was "super-relativist," with only one guiding...
...searches with the intention of hiring a quantitative scholar, as it did with Fiorina, but Chairman John D. Montgomery insists that the department is building up its quantitative ranks warily. "There's been some disappointment among departments who have gone all out in that direction with an almost religious zeal," he says. "Many of them have taken the view that we've been laggards. We've moved cautiously, but very effectively...