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...kind of knowing wit that many baby boomers admire. But switch on a TV camera or get him in front of a crowd, and a mysterious alchemy transforms him into solid oak. This is the Al Gore the public has come to know--something akin to the robotic Abe Lincoln at Disneyland, only less lifelike...
...CANDIDATE] ORRIN HATCH SENATE JUDICIARY CHAIRMAN [SIGN OF RUNNING] He's been whispering it himself--hoping someone will listen [PLAUSIBILITY FACTOR] Uh, oh, making friends with Ted Kennedy on health care [WANTS TO REMIND US OF:] Honest Abe [ACTUALLY REMINDS US OF:] Borin' Orrin...
...more intrusive, socialist government. The welfare state must collapse, and I believe it will in our lifetime. If you wish to smooth the transition from the doomed status quo to a time of true personal and economic freedom, vote for Harry Browne on the Libertarian ticket. --Abe Sutherland...
...Civil War." Said Clinton has put more troops in action than any other American president. Said Clinton's administration is one that "gave you a very big tax cut." UNLIKELY HEROES: Al D'Amato, Nancy Kassebaum, John McCain, Warren Rudman, 500 economists and 7 Nobel laureates. George McGovern, Abe Ribicoff, Edward M. Kennedy '54-'56, Robert Byrd, Landell Shakespeare. STOCK PHRASES: "21st century"--At least 16 times "Taxes" or "Clinton tax increase"--28 times 10.5 million new jobs--7 times "Liberal" or "liberal elite"--13 times, including a friendly reference to McGovern Newt Gingrich--5 times Medicare, Medicaid, education, environment...
...czar, "as he struggled--successfully--to overcome his addiction to cigarettes." This week Goodgame, now TIME's Washington bureau chief, profiles the Republican commissar of virtue. Traveling with Bennett, he reports, "is like a very good graduate seminar. When Bill finds something he likes to read, he's like Abe Lincoln, rereading the best parts until he's able to declaim them from memory. He has the same memory for anecdotes, including jokes at his own expense." A rare trait for politicians of any stripe...