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Article: Dole Assails Clinton For `Ethical Failures'; Republican's Attack Is Strongest to Date
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- The Washington Post
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- October 16, 1996
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Republican Robert J. Dole unleased his most stinging attack of
the presidential campaign today, accusing President Clinton of
diminishing the presidency through a pattern of evasion, half-truths
and "endless violations of public trust" that Dole said has fostered
cynicism and eroded faith in the political system.
On the eve of his last debate with Clinton, Dole ran through a
long list of what he described as the administration's ethical
failures and warned that Clinton's reelection Nov. 5 would lead to
"four more years of discarded pledges and shaded truths."
"I don't know of any administration that has been more
self-righteous, but few administrations have been more
self-serving," ...