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As Bob Dole found out, you can't keep a positive image while being your party's mouthpiece in Congress. That's why no legislative leader since James Madison has ever been elected president.

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Dick Morris
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: November 28
Author
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New York City
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Richard S. Morris
Richard Samuel Morris
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