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U.S. presidential election, 1988 | |||
Having been badly defeated in the 1984 presidential election, the Democrats were eager to find a new approach to the presidency. Among the field of candidates were the following:
In early 1987, Senator Gary Hart was the clear frontrunner in the field (Democratic party efforts to recruit New York Governor Mario Cuomo[?] aside). Hart had put in a strong showing in the 1984 presidential election, and had refined his campaign in the intervening years.
However, questions about extramarital affairs dogged the charismatic candidate. An exasperated Hart challenged the press to tail him. The Miami Herald did exactly that, to uncover damaging evidence of an affair with 29-year-old model Donna Rice[?], getting a photograph of Rice sitting on Hart's lap. On May 8, 1987, a week after the Donna Rice story broke, Hart dropped out of the race.
In December of 1987, Hart returned to the race. However the damage had been done.
Notable quote: George H. W. Bush: "Read my lips: no new taxes"
A West Virginia elector voted for Bentsen as President and Dukakis as Vice President.
See also: President of the United States, U.S. presidential election, 1988
habitation--or even occupation--anywhere. He had been too
he had possessed the ordinary knowledge of a backwoodsman, which he
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But the same association of ideas in his torpid and confused brain
the tree. He ate the few hazel-nuts he found there, ravenously.
from it a certain strength and intuition. He limped through the
there to peer out through the openings over the marshes that lay
preternaturally acute. It was the latter which suddenly arrested
beyond the mere instincts of hunger--it indicated the contiguity of
death.
He stopped, trembled violently, and tried to collect his scattered
with the surrounding Indians, and only held its own against them by
casual wandering Indian as a target for the practising rifles of
aborigines and stimulated them to terrible and isolated reprisals.
horse and held hideously upright by a cross of wood behind his
camp; the corpse of Dick Ryner had been found anchored on the
solitary and unprotected member of Redwood Camp who fell into the
subside in a certain apathy of the imagination, which, perhaps,
become again uppermost. He knew that the low bark tents, or
his whole being was new centered upon an attempt to stealthily
sign of life or habitation; a few moments later, however, and grown
he crept out of the thicket and found himself near a long, low
A single narrow opening, not unlike the entrance of an Esquimau
the character of the building. It was a "sweathouse," an
California. Half a religious temple, it was also half a sanitary
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