WHAT IT TAKES

GOP presidential candidate Bob Dole's arsenal of advisers long includedformer president Richard Nixon. Before the late president died last year, he left Dole a wealth of advice onhow to make it to the White House. Dole gave aletter from Nixondetailing his strategic advice to the Los Angeles Times, which reported it today. To be nominated, Nixon wrote, "you have torun as far as you can to the rightbecause that's where 40 percent of the people who decide the nomination are. And to get elected, you have to run as fast as you can back to the middle because only about 4 percent of the nation's voters are on the extreme right wing."