Article: In Contrasting Himself to Clinton, Dole Finds Voice; Reluctant Orator Adjusts Speech Series: campaign '96

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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