Measuring Up: Restoring the Greatness of American Schools, Melrose, MA (Melrose High School) 22 September 1999

Ladies and gentleman, let me sum up: While I am proposing significant change in federal policy shift from paperwork to performance--all of these initiatives boil down to some simple choices. We can choose to put children first or we can put the system first; we can choose to reinvent public education, or continue to support a deeply flawed system. We can choose to measure up to America's spirit -- a spirit of creativity, independence, and challenge -- or let this heavy stack of regulations and restrictions continue to pull our public schools further down.

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Elizabeth Dole introducing her husband at the Republican Convention. Also at this site, other speeches by famous ladies.

GOP Looking To Do A Liddy Bid Better

There was a lot of talk about that — Dole again, Elizabeth Dole, at the top of the ticket," said Bill Bennett, cofounder of the Empower America think tank that hosted the Doles at one of their first post election outings.

Study Says Direct Appeal Wins Votes Women, Polls Disconnect

"People need to see that the elections are about them—their jobs, their health care, their retirement, their children's education, their future," Becky Cain, president of the League of Women Voters, said when that study was released in May 1996. (Analyzing the gender gap.)

So who should, or would, run? For the Republicans, Elizabeth Dole's name always comes up first. She has a golden resume

Independent pollster John Zogby has a hunch that one or both parties may put a woman on the ticket in 2000. Last November, he polled a mock presidential race pitting a GOP ticket of Texas Gov. George W. Bush and Elizabeth Dole against Vice President Gore and Senator Feinstein. Bush-Dole got 42.5 percent vs. 32.5 percent for Gore- Feinstein. - But if a dynamic candidate, who happens to be a woman,   bursts onto the scene - say, a female version of Colin Powell or an American Margaret Thatcher -  there's no reason she couldn't go for the presidency, 

Elizabeth Dole soars in poll

Summary: In the wake of her speech on the GOP convention floor, Elizabeth Dole's stock as a political asset has jumped - pushing her ahead of Hillary Rodham Clinton's poll standings.

Voters in poll prefer Dole over Clinton as first lady Deja News

Among men, Bob Dole gets 49 percent and Elizabeth Dole gets 48 percent, while Bill Clinton gets 42 percent and Hillary Clinton gets 28 percent. Among female respondents, Bill Clinton gets 56 percent and Hillary gets 43 percent, while Bob Dole gets 37 percent and Elizabeth gets 38 percent.

Mrs. Dole shines in `talk show'
 Annual Conference
 

She was winging it, without text or TelePrompTer, and convention planners gave her a 20-minute block of prime time to warm up the delegates before her husband's name was placed in nomination. It would have been nearly unthinkable for Bob Dole, so reserved, so prone to unscripted gaffes, to attempt the same before a national television audience.

In the wake of her speech on the GOP convention floor, Elizabeth Dole's stock as a political asset has jumped - pushing her ahead of Hillary Rodham Clinton's poll standings. More than half of those polled - 58%

In the wake of her speech on the GOP convention floor, Elizabeth Dole's stock as a political asset has jumped - pushing her ahead of Hillary Rodham Clinton's poll standings.
More than half of those polled - 58% - gave Elizabeth Dole a favorable rating. That's a 7 point increase from early August.
Only 18% rated her unfavorably in the new USA TODAY/CNN/Gallup poll taken after the Republican convention.
By comparison, 48% of voters surveyed rated first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton unfavorably.
Slightly less than half of those polled - 47% - gave the first lady a favorable rating. http://167.8.29.19/elect/eq/eq109.htm