Word: bob
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When Hastert, 58, first became Speaker of the House, anonymity was his mandate. Following Newt Gingrich's 1998 self-immolation and Bob Livingston's scandal-plagued, 32-day stay as Speaker-designate, congressional Republicans needed a Speaker with an aversion to open microphones and a private life cleaner than soap. They wanted the Anti-Newt, and Hastert--a beefy, obscure, seven-term Congressman from Illinois--was their knight in a husky gray suit. He quickly put his stamp on the office by delivering part of his acceptance speech from the floor of the House. "My legislative home is here...
Despite the emphasis on inclusion at the Republican Convention, Bush actually fared worse than Bob Dole with most minority voters. U.S. Census Bureau estimates project a steady reduction in the size of the G.O.P's white Christian base, meaning party diversity will be critical to the Republican Party's future...
Already the pressure was building. By the time the recount was over, Bush's original margin had sagged to a mere 327 votes, but he remained ahead. Prominent Democrats like New Jersey Senator Bob Torricelli and former Labor Secretary Robert Reich called on the Gore campaign not to lawyer the race to death. Editorial pages looked for the Maginot Line...
...committee. His supporters had been mostly from the younger generation of Senators elected in his class. After he squeaked into the leader's job by a one-vote margin, elder Democrats tittered behind the scenes, sure he would turn to putty in the masterly hands of majority leader Bob Dole...
...Constitution we're all in a dither over gives us two months to fix this. Bob Dole has joked that it's going to take a SWAT team to blast Clinton out of the Oval Office, so we don't need to be worried about whether he's going to give two weeks' notice. No fusion Cabinet, no bonding with members of the congressional opposition, will substitute for a genuine, authoritative result we can all live with, however unhappily. Only when we have that result will the winner have any hope of doing more than play-acting...