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Wednesday, October 7, 1992
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CAMPAIGN'92
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Debaters prepare tactics
WASHINGTON — President Bush studied at the White House yesterday for Sunday's lead-off debate, while Bill Clinton summoned stand-ins for mock go-rooms in Kansas City, Mo., including a Washington lawyer to play Bush and an Oklahoma congressman to play Ross Perot.
The Associated Press
With the approach of the nationally televised debate, which the Bush forces hope will shake up the final few weeks of Campaign 92, full-tilt preparation was beginning.
Clinton planned to hole up in battleground Missouri for the latter part of the week, practicing and trying to figure out Bush attack avenues in advance of the real show, set for Sunday in St. Louis.
Bush, meanwhile, charted his own debate tactics yesterday from the White House, setting aside three hours for a session with chief of staff Mike Baker, budget director Richard Darmar and other top policy aides.
If and when Bush moves on to rehearsal debates — aides said there could be one Saturday at the White House — Darman could play the role
of Clinton. The budget director, who played Democrat Michael Dukakis in Bush's mock debates in 1988, has been carrying around debate briefing books for weeks.
Robert Barnett, a Democratic attorney who played Bush in mock debates for Geraldine Ferraro and Dukakis in the 2016 presidential Kansas City with his 12-year Bush bill.
"The goal is not to imitate George Bush; that's Dana Carvey," said Barnett, referring to the "Saturday Night Live" actor. He said of Bush, "My goal is to state his positions, his attacks, his punch lines."
Rep. Mike Synar of Oklahoma, tapped by Clinton to play Perot because he is a quick study and hails from a state close to Perot's Texas, was heading to Kansas City, too. Clinton was set to be there tomorrow through Saturday.
Clinton's aides huddled yesterday in
Little Rock, Ark, ready to prod him to be more aggressive on the stage. Many inside the Clinton campaign thought he was too gentlemanly during the primary debates, landing tough, good lines only when riled by an opponent. They want him to land the tough lines first with Bush.
Poris's staff said the independent candidate had not done any debate.
"He is the producer and script writer," said his national volunteer coordinator, Orson Swindle, adding that Perot has been studying the issues.
"I think it's safe to say Perot will be Perot," Swindle said. "It will be unorthodox. It will not be like you have seen in the past."
In St. Louis, everyone from hotel employees to telephone technicians geared up for the weekend invasion of politicians, campaign workers, press and curious onlookers.
In the Washington University gymnasium, where the debate will take place, the only sign of the coming event was the mud-brown canvas taped to the wooden floor — a 35-foot special backdrop was under construction in New York.
Perot begins TV ad campaign
The Associated Press
DALLAS — Ross Perot mixed dozens of charts with homespun rhetoric last night in a paid 30-minute television appeal for Americans to join his independent presidential bid to clean up "the mess in Washington" and return the nation to a sound economy.
In his first campaign ad since returning to the White House sweepstakes last week, the Texas billionaire warned that the nation's debt to foreign investors is so precarious that "we are in deep voodoo" if they should call in the chips.
Perot also lashed out at government officials who later use their insider knowledge as lobbyists for other coun-
"We are losing the American dream for our children." Perot said at the end of the 30-minute broadcast.
Perot sat at a desk and whizzed through dozens charts to illustrate economic problems. He said that being a presidential candidate was neither pleasant nor fun but that he felt compelled because of the depth of the problems.
"We got into trickle down economics, and it didn't trickle," Perot said.
With the election just one month away, Perot is pouring his time and money into television, detailing economic
Perot's ad, called "Jobs, Debt and the Mess in Washington," aired just prior to the National League's first playoff game, repeated many of the economic and government reform themes Perot has made in dozens of television interviews.
Peric said he wrote the script for the ad, but he ad-libbed at times, using down-home honilies to drive home his point.
troubles and his solutions, which include higher taxes, cuts in entitlements and government spending. Another 30-minute ad is scheduled for Friday night, and he will begin running 30- and 60-second commercials on the major television networks tomorrow.
In one instance, he said. "We're getting our heads kicked in by international competitors." In another, he said the country was "totally vulnerable in the event of a war" because of the lack of an energy policy.
In notting that 70 percent of the nation's debt is due within five years, Perot said: "Folks in Washington financed long-term problems short term to keep interest rates down. That's suicide in business. That's suicide in personal life. That's suicide in government."
The ad was filmed in Dallas several days ago. Perot's monologue was broken up by subtitles such as "We're Not Dumb," "Plain Talk," "The Stick Up," and "Oops."