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Article: In Contrasting Himself to Clinton, Dole Finds Voice; Reluctant Orator Adjusts Speech Series: campaign '96
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- The Washington Post
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- March 9, 1996
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Senate Majority Leader Robert J. Dole is such a spare and
reluctant orator that it would be stretching things to say that he
has found a comfort level in his stump speech. But his public
rhetoric in recent days has been evolving into a tale of two men:
the humble Bob Dole, whose story he often relates in third person,
and the profligate and obstinate Bill Clinton, whom he portrays as
his only opponent.
The story of Dole and Clinton, as told by Dole, is one of vast
contrasts, where one man's strengths are the other's weaknesses.
Dole concedes to Clinton a decided superiority as speaker and
communicator. But he tries to turn that to his advantage by
emphasizing the gap between words and ...
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