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Article: Bush starts to woo Democratic Congress
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- November 10, 1988
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WASHINGTON President-elect George Bush now begins building
bridges with a surly Democratic Congress and also mending fences with
old rivals, including Senate Minority Leader Robert J. Dole (R-Kan.).
While Bush won 54 percent of the popular vote in Tuesday's
election, Democrats slightly increased their 80-seat majority in the
House and will add one or two seats to their current Senate majority
of 54-46.
It was the first time since Democrat John F. Kennedy won the
White House in 1960 that a president saw the other party gain seats
in both the House and Senate. And it left each side saying it had as
much of a mandate as the other.
"Certainly, there will be considerable conflict between ...