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Whither the Repubs?
Lamar Alexander. Saxby Chambliss. Lindsey Graham. What do they have in common? Well, they're all members of the Republican Senate sanity caucus (except for...
Its Deficit Plan Revived, the Senate Gang of Six Grows by One
The Gang if Six just became the Gang of Seven. Senator Lamar Alexander of Tennessee, the No. 3 Republican in the Senate, Tuesday morning signed onto the...
Campaign 2008: How Big Money Picks a Winner
Former Senator Howard Baker once called Republican fund raiser Ted Welch "the No. 1 political fund raiser in all history." In late December, Welch signed up as...
CAMPAIGN '96: THE SEARCH FOR ALEXANDER
DOG PEOPLE TEND TO PICK straightforward names for their pets, as with Gus, the slobbery Labrador who has been barking at former presidential candidate Phil Gramm...
TENNESSEE WALTZ
LAMAR ALEXANDER HAD JUST CONCLUDED a six-city campaign swing through Iowa last Wednesday and was reworking the speech he was to deliver the next morning in...
CAMPAIGN '96: WHERE'S THE BEEF?
HE SAYS BOB DOLE HAS GOT "NO ideas." And Pat Buchanan has got the "wrong" ones. But walking the path of hubris that led Gary Hart off a cliff in 1988, Lamar...
CAMPAIGN '96: INSIDE THE RACE: THE SECRET TEST OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
ONE OF THE STRANGE, SCARRING THINGS about the New Hampshire primary is its curious way of looking less like the beginning of the presidential race than the end...
THE MONEY CHASE
It's a good thing the tennessee State Highway Patrol doesn't issue citations for high-speed pursuit of matching funds. By the time Lamar Alexander wheeled his...
George Bush's Point Man
Author Alex Haley and his friend Lamar Alexander booked passage together in 1988 on a cargo ship from California to Australia, aiming to write books away from...
ROSS PEROT: HE'S BACK (PART TWO)
The suitors began paying court months ago. When H. Ross Perot stopped by Hilton Head, South Carolina, last year, his "phone pal" Lamar Alexander, the former...
