Mr. Bush told the crowd: ''It would be easier, safer, more diplomatic to remain silent - to negotiate our treaties and never raise the question of human rights. But that would be untrue to ourselves, and it would break our promise to the past.'' Referring to a visit he had made to the Auschwitz concentration camp memorial in Poland, Mr. Bush said, ''I came away from Auschwitz determined not just to remember the Holocaust, but determined to renew our commitment to human rights around the world.'' 'One Fundamental Issue' Mr. Dole, referring to the summit meeting, said, ''There is really only one fundamental issue on the agenda -freedom. ''Whatever glasnost is, it is not freedom.'' https://www.nytimes.com/1987/12/07/world/march-by-200000-in-capital-presses-soviet-on-rights.html
Following standard practice, the Dole campaign ''salted'' its list of contributors submitted to the Federal Election Commission with booby traps. These traps are designed to catch campaigns that steal the lists of rival candidates and try to mine them for cash, an illegal practice under Federal law. What showed up in one trap, according to the Dole camp, is the Bush campaign. Here's what happened: The Dole list of contributors included the name of the campaign counsel's 90-year-old grandmother, who lives in Shawnee, Kan. Sure enough, the woman, whose name was deliberately misspelled, soon received a fund-raising pitch from the Bush camp with her name written exactly the way it appeared on the Federal list. In a letter to Lee Atwater, Mr. Bush's campaign manager, the Dole forces said they regarded this incident as a ''very serious matter'' and asked for an explanation. https://www.nytimes.com/1987/12/10/us/washington-talk-briefing-the-dole-snare.html
Позже ключевую роль сыграет Роджер Эйлс - после поражения Буша на первых праймериз в Айове он посоветует перейти к атаке на Доула.
From the Tuesday after the primary through Thursday, Mr. Bush's support melted away. From the Bush campaign's perspective, the hemorrhaging stopped on Thursday. But it resumed again in its polls on Friday night after former Secretary of State Alexander M. Haig Jr. endorsed Mr. Dole. Seen from the perspective of both campaigns, this was the critical moment. Watching the decay of the Vice President's support, Mr. Atwater and Roger Ailes, the media advisor, knew that a television commercial attacking Mr. Dole was essential. Mr. Ailes got the idea to attack Mr. Dole as a ''straddler'' on tax increases from a Dole commercial that used the same word about Mr. Bush. Mr. Bush's first instinct was to reject the commercial when it was proposed to him on Thursday. Bush aides say the Vice President was feeling somewhat reassured at the time by the leveling off in the polls. The next day, just four days before the primary, Mr. Bush agreed the commercial was needed. https://www.nytimes.com/1988/03/17/us/bush-vs-dole-behind-the-turnaround.html
He wasn't perfect, but Roger Ailes was my friend & I loved him. Not sure I would have been President w/o his great talent, loyal help. RIP. - George Bush (@GeorgeHWBush) May 18, 2017
Mr. Bush told the crowd: ''It would be easier, safer, more diplomatic to remain silent - to negotiate our treaties and never raise the question of human rights. But that would be untrue to ourselves, and it would break our promise to the past.''
Referring to a visit he had made to the Auschwitz concentration camp memorial in Poland, Mr. Bush said, ''I came away from Auschwitz determined not just to remember the Holocaust, but determined to renew our commitment to human rights around the world.'' 'One Fundamental Issue'
Mr. Dole, referring to the summit meeting, said, ''There is really only one fundamental issue on the agenda -freedom.
''Whatever glasnost is, it is not freedom.''
https://www.nytimes.com/1987/12/07/world/march-by-200000-in-capital-presses-soviet-on-rights.html
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Ли Этуотер не брезговал грязными трюками.
Following standard practice, the Dole campaign ''salted'' its list of contributors submitted to the Federal Election Commission with booby traps. These traps are designed to catch campaigns that steal the lists of rival candidates and try to mine them for cash, an illegal practice under Federal law.
What showed up in one trap, according to the Dole camp, is the Bush campaign.
Here's what happened: The Dole list of contributors included the name of the campaign counsel's 90-year-old grandmother, who lives in Shawnee, Kan. Sure enough, the woman, whose name was deliberately misspelled, soon received a fund-raising pitch from the Bush camp with her name written exactly the way it appeared on the Federal list.
In a letter to Lee Atwater, Mr. Bush's campaign manager, the Dole forces said they regarded this incident as a ''very serious matter'' and asked for an explanation.
https://www.nytimes.com/1987/12/10/us/washington-talk-briefing-the-dole-snare.html
Позже ключевую роль сыграет Роджер Эйлс - после поражения Буша на первых праймериз в Айове он посоветует перейти к атаке на Доула.
From the Tuesday after the primary through Thursday, Mr. Bush's support melted away. From the Bush campaign's perspective, the hemorrhaging stopped on Thursday. But it resumed again in its polls on Friday night after former Secretary of State Alexander M. Haig Jr. endorsed Mr. Dole.
Seen from the perspective of both campaigns, this was the critical moment.
Watching the decay of the Vice President's support, Mr. Atwater and Roger Ailes, the media advisor, knew that a television commercial attacking Mr. Dole was essential. Mr. Ailes got the idea to attack Mr. Dole as a ''straddler'' on tax increases from a Dole commercial that used the same word about Mr. Bush.
Mr. Bush's first instinct was to reject the commercial when it was proposed to him on Thursday. Bush aides say the Vice President was feeling somewhat reassured at the time by the leveling off in the polls. The next day, just four days before the primary, Mr. Bush agreed the commercial was needed.
https://www.nytimes.com/1988/03/17/us/bush-vs-dole-behind-the-turnaround.html
He wasn't perfect, but Roger Ailes was my friend & I loved him. Not sure I would have been President w/o his great talent, loyal help. RIP.
- George Bush (@GeorgeHWBush) May 18, 2017
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