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- <text id=91TT0369>
- <title>
- Feb. 18, 1991: Gephardt's Head Cheerleader
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
- Feb. 18, 1991 The War Comes Home
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- GRAPEVINE, Page 13
- Gephardt's Head Cheerleader
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- <p>By David Ellis/Reported by Sidney Urquhart
- </p>
- <p> Is House Speaker Tom Foley offering more than just moral
- support for a Dick Gephardt presidential run? Last week the
- Missouri Congressman got a surprise boost from Foley, who said
- he "would have no objection or concern about" the majority
- leader retaining his House post while making a bid for the
- presidency. This reduces the political gamble for Gephardt by
- keeping his seat warm in case he loses the nomination.
- Moreover, Foley's endorsement gives Gephardt an excuse to back
- away from the pledge he made in 1989, when running for the
- leadership post, that he would not seek the White House in
- 1992.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
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