when went home after 20 years in the government and started in the i stopped reading the washington post cold turkey and lived. i'm a different person having been in business for 10 years. you deal with different problems .ith different people i thought about running for the presidency in 1977 and made a judgment to go home. to inof friends i turned again atess, i looked them in 1985 and it looked like it would be wide open in 1988. after spending a good time traveling in the country and meeting with an awful lot of people, i concluded it is wide open and there is a generational change taking place and they people who have tended to -- it is verycene difficult for a vice president to run for president. we have not elected a vice president president in 150 years in our country. second, front runners tend to not do well, and third, it is more of a marathon than a sprint. most candidates seem to defeat themselves rather than be defeated by someone else. i know the other candidates and they are good men. they have strengths and weaknesses as i have strengths and weaknesses. i suspect the test will be wh

i stopped reading the washington post cold turkey. i am a different person for having been in business for 10 years. you get a different perspective. i thought about running for the presidency in 1976. i decided to be away from government for. . bush and dole and anderson and connolly all ran. it looked like he would be wide open in 1988. after spending a lot of time traveling around the country, i have concluded that is wide open. a generational changes taking place in both parties. the people who dominated the scene will be off the same. is very difficult for vice president to run for president. we have not elected a vice president as president in 150 years. front runners don't do that well. it is more of a marathon that a sprint. most candidates seem to defeat themselves. i know the other candidates and they are good men. they have strengths and weaknesses as i do. the test will be what the american people feel about our country's circumstances in the world. how the various candidates backgrounds and aspirations mesh with those nee