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Article: Charming her way to the White House; air travel stinks, auto safety is a joke - and Washington still loves Liddy Dole. (Elizabeth Dole)
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- The Washington Monthly
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- September 1, 1987
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CHARMING HER WAY to the WHITE HOUSE
"She's progressive at the core'--a former aide to Elizabeth Dole, quoted in Fortune.
"She is essentially a conservative person'-- Virginia Knauer, Dole's former boss in the Nixon White House.
This summer, when every day seemed to bring another report of a close call in the skies, the media began taking a keen interest in air safety. Typical was the Newsweek cover story,' "The Year of the Near Miss,' which declared, "America's air-travel system is showing signs of breakdown. Reports of midair near collisions are soaring, errors by controllers are on the rise and the flying public's tolerance for cattle-car ...