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Article: Gephardt's gamble.(Gephardt, Dick, congressman)(Interview)
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- U.S. News & World Report
- Article date:
- November 4, 2002
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Dick Gephardt climbs out of the gray Ford Taurus and with a practiced eye surveys the local plant life and neighborhood dogs. He has knocked on several hundred thousand doors in his 31-year political career, and he knows flora is to be preferred to fauna. The flora never chase you down the street. "There was this huge German shepherd once," he recalls. "It had the meanest teeth. I thought I was going to be mauled. But then it just stopped barking and ran away." Apparently, some things scare even German shepherds.
It is a cool, damp Saturday morning, and Gephardt is on Lambeth Lane in Lemay, an unincorporated suburb of St. Louis. The homes are modest, one-story ...