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Article: Courting `big ideas': Bradley takes a liberal vision on the road against Gore.(Special Report)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- October 31, 1999
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Bill Bradley wrote his Senate memoir longhand, with No. 2 pencils. He is seeking the Democratic presidential nomination with the same plodding self-assurance.
After 35 years in the spotlight, the former Princeton all-American, New York Knick and three-term New Jersey senator remains an easygoing enigma, as elusive on the campaign trail as he was on the basketball court.
Mr. Bradley once was a Senate centrist, an aloof contrarian who led the fight for the rate-slashing, loophole-closing Tax Reform Act of 1986.
He is campaigning for president as a liberal, trumpeting "big ideas" such as a health care fix that would cost up to $65 billion a ...