CAMPAIGN '96: CAN LIDDY SAVE BOB'S CAMPAIGN?

Bob and Elizabeth Dole save Sunday mornings for reflection, reviewing one week and surveying the next. The weekend before last, over brunch at their Watergate apartment with Bob's daughter Robin, the Doles had plenty to sort through. The night before, comedian Al Franken had acidly observed that the only voting bloc Dole was winning at the moment was agribusiness executives. Elizabeth Dole turned to her husband and said he needed to make some changes. It was time, she said, to put some "adult supervision" into place at a campaign peopled by aides in their middle 30s, many of whom have never...

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