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Article: The Des Moines Register's Season In the Sun; Feeling the Heat Before the Caucuses
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- The Washington Post
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- February 2, 1988
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George Bush recently found a sure-fire way to drive Iowa
Republicans wild, and it wasn't by zapping a network anchorman.
All he had to do was get tough with The Des Moines Register.
It happened at last month's Des Moines Register debate for the
Republican presidential candidates, when the newspaper's editor,
James P. Gannon, asked Bush why he wouldn't reveal his role in the
Iran-contra affair. The vice president insisted that he already had.
Then Bush added, "Your paper today had that question raised as
if I hadn't answered it. And I resent it, frankly." Suddenly
thousands in the Des Moines Civic Center began to beat their hands
together.
"You owe me now," Bush went on, as the ...