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Article: Horses, dark and otherwise. (presidential candidates in 1988)
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- National Review
- Article date:
- January 31, 1986
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Horses, Dark and Otherwise
TWO SERIOUS Democratic politicians--Geraldine Ferraro does not count--have laid out their long-range plans. Edward Kennedy will forgo a presidential race in 1988, so as to devote full time to his legislative and political agenda: "to put aside complacency and the appeals to narrow interests, to care about one another, even the least among us' (. . . to get a new speechwriter). Gary Hart will forgo a senatorial race in 1986, the better to pursue his agenda, which is to run for President. (He didn't quite say that, declaring only that it was time "to express my commitment to our state and our nation in other ways, and perhaps on a ...