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...Bob Smith...
...refer not to the buckskin-clad host of The Howdy Doody Show, whose recent death would appear to pose an insurmountable liability to his candidacy, but to Bob Smith, U.S. Senator, who says he is leaning toward a long-shot presidential run. This Bob Smith is not just a Senator. He is a Senator from New Hampshire. And therein lies the key to the excitement his potential candidacy stirs in the reportorial breast...
This is the promise that Bob Smith holds for every frostbitten media type in America: the promise that Smith's entry into the race will persuade every other Republican to bypass New Hampshire and head straight for California, whose primary in 2000 will be held on March 7. Surely, surely the most populous state in the Union will absorb weeks--nay, months--of every candidate's time, once New Hampshire is off the boards. What does it mean if Mr. Smith runs? Instead of the frozen tundra of Manchester, the sandy beaches of Montecito; instead of a frozen glass...
More than 80 years ago, Woodrow Wilson won re-election promising America neutrality and offering a simple campaign theme: "He kept us out of war." With Bob Smith in the race, every journalist would abandon neutrality and rally to the Senator's unspoken theme: "He kept us out of Laconia...
...descriptions of Clinton's helping to craft the ads got the President in hot water to begin with, could be the Democrats' best witness. According to Morris, Democratic National Committee general counsel Joe Sandler "changed every script. He put quotas on the number of seconds Clinton could appear. When Bob Dole left the Senate, we could no longer use his name." Sandler's advice, Morris told TIME, "was always followed." A senior Justice official says Reno's decision will depend in part on what the Federal Election Commission does with its auditors' recommendations that the Clinton and Dole campaigns both...