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Bob Dole, still struggling to put to rest abortion flap he raised by saying on CNN he would put “tolerance statement” directly in pro-life plank of the platform, meets for more than an hour with pro-life platform committee chairman Henry Hyde. Dole and Hyde reportedly discuss three possibilities: putting tolerance statement in preamble, in the body of the platform in a general statement about GOP diversity, or in a number of different controversial planks, including but not limited to abortion. . . . Christian Coalition executive director Ralph Reed threatens “to go to San Diego and oppose” platform with tolerance statement directly in pro-life plank, while Hyde considered resigning as chairman of platform committee when Dole made his CNN comments. . . . Dole, in an interview with the Washington Times, chastises House freshmen: “They came here with a mandate. . . . Those people, who voted for you want you to do it, but they don’t want you todoitso fast.” . . . Dole, in another context, says “I want to remind people the Republican party is compassionate.” . . . Dole advisors reported to think up-tick in a recent CNN poll validates his move to the center on abortion, taxes, other issues.

Spin control, we presume? George Stephanopoulos changes tune on FBI filegate figure Craig Livingstone. In 1994 Stephanopoulos told Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: “He does a terrific job. All I know is that anything that has to do with security or logistics—Craig’s going to take care of it. . . . And he knows how to cut through the bureaucracy and get things done.” When asked about Livingstone recently by the Washington Post, Stephanopoulos demurred: “I don’t know him that well. He’s a guy that was around.” . . . New Yorker’s Michael Kelly reports on run-in between ACLU legislative director Laura Murphy and Clinton advisor Rahm Emanuel. According to Murphy when she confronted Emanuel on administration’s alleged ACLU-bashing he replied: “Go ahead and get angry at us. That’s good. Fight back publicly. That’s good for us.” . . . Clinton movingly evoked Arkansas church burnings from his childhood in his June 8 Saturday radio address. But Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reports that there were no church burnings in the state when Clinton was growing up. . . . Columnist James Glassman notes that, despite hype, fires at black churches have been at most roughly proportional to those at white churches over the last five years.

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Bob Dole, still struggling to put to rest abortion flap he raised by saying on CNN he would put “tolerance statement” directly in pro-life plank of the platform, meets for more than an hour with pro-life platform committee chairman Henry Hyde. Dole and Hyde reportedly discuss three possibilities: putting tolerance statement in preamble, in the body of the platform in a general statement about GOP diversity, or in a number of different controversial planks, including but not limited to abortion. . . . Christian Coalition executive director Ralph Reed threatens “to go to San Diego and oppose” platform with tolerance statement directly in pro-life plank, while Hyde considered resigning as chairman of platform committee when Dole made his CNN comments. . . . Dole, in an interview with the Washington Times, chastises House freshmen: “They came here with a mandate. . . . Those people, who voted for you want you to do it, but they don’t want you todoitso fast.” . . . Dole, in another context, says “I want to remind people the Republican party is compassionate.” . . . Dole advisors reported to think up-tick in a recent CNN poll validates his move to the center on abortion, taxes, other issues.

Spin control, we presume? George Stephanopoulos changes tune on FBI filegate figure Craig Livingstone. In 1994 Stephanopoulos told Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: “He does a terrific job. All I know is that anything that has to do with security or logistics—Craig’s going to take care of it. . . . And he knows how to cut through the bureaucracy and get things done.” When asked about Livingstone recently by the Washington Post, Stephanopoulos demurred: “I don’t know him that well. He’s a guy that was around.” . . . New Yorker’s Michael Kelly reports on run-in between ACLU legislative director Laura Murphy and Clinton advisor Rahm Emanuel. According to Murphy when she confronted Emanuel on administration’s alleged ACLU-bashing he replied: “Go ahead and get angry at us. That’s good. Fight back publicly. That’s good for us.” . . . Clinton movingly evoked Arkansas church burnings from his childhood in his June 8 Saturday radio address. But Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reports that there were no church burnings in the state when Clinton was growing up. . . . Columnist James Glassman notes that, despite hype, fires at black churches have been at most roughly proportional to those at white churches over the last five years.