8 CAMPAIGN'92 Tuesday, August 25,1992 UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN Democrats' wives respond to Republican attacks The Associated Press Spouses defend their families on talk shows WASHINGTON — Hillary Clinton and Tipper Gore fired back yesterday at Republican assaults on Clinton and painted the GOP as a party that wants to bash "other people's families" rather than solve family problems. "They had their chance to talk about the future ... and instead they chose to make up stories and launch verbal grenades," Clinton said in her first detailed reply to last week's attacks on her at the Republican National Convention. She and Gore gave a double-barreled response on yesterday morning's talk shows, appearing on NBC's "Today" and "CBS This Morning" in interviews taped during the Clinton-Gore campaign's weekend bus tour of the Rust Belt. Also yesterday, the two women were featured in a Cable News Network spot. Hillary Clinton It was their first national exposure since last week's GOP convention in Houston, where President Bush's supporters focused on values and aimed much of their fire at Clinton, a Yale-educated lawyer. Conservative Patrick Buchanan cast Clinton as a radical feminist who likens marriage to slavery. Marilyn Quayle got in a more subtle dig, saying liberals are disappointed "because most women do not wish to be liberated from their essential natures as women." Cinton told CBS that Quayle's remark was "a bit of an insult to today's modern women, most of whom are working mothers and struggling very hard to balance their family's needs with the family's economic needs." Told that an aid to Quyleb boasted that the vice president's wife was always home for dinner by 7 p.m., Clinton said: "Well, I'm very, very proud for her. And I wish that every family in America could have that kind of opportunity." At the same time, Clinton said she didn't want to get into a "rhetorical battle" with Quavle. Clinton said the Republican charges against her were so postoperative that it was difficult to respond. She said she didn't take the attacks personally, dismissing them as typical Republican campaign tactics. "How could you get hurt by things that aren't true?" she asked. "It's a very calculated, unfortunate kind of political tactic. But it doesn't affect us." Gore came to the defense of Clinton over her writings on legal rights for children, which had provided much of the fodder for the GOP attack. Gore brushed off any meaning to the absence of herself and Clinton from the speaking platform at last month's Democratic National Convention in New York, even though Barbara Bush and Marilyn Quayle both had prominent speaking roles in Houston. "Well, you know, I'd rather hear from them than their husbands, anyway," Gore said. Both women spoke Sunday in Chautauqua, N.Y., backing their husbands' contention that while Republicans scold on values, they don't take action on social and economic programs that would help struggling families. Bush proposes $10 billion program with no tax hikes The Associated Press ANSONIA, Conn. — Plagued by high unemployment and a weak election-year economy, President Bush proposed a $2 billion-a-year package of new job-training programs yesterday and said they could be paid for without raising taxes. we can get everybody engaged in high-tech jobs with this retraining approach," Bush promised at a campaign stop 71 days before the presidential election. He said the $10 billion cost over five years would be paid for by cutting spending for other, unspecified federal programs. Bush's announcement drew swift criticism from Democratic presidential candidate Bill Clinton, who said the president had no way to finance his proposals. "The heist got through telling us at the convention we were going to have huge tax cuts paid for by huge spending cuts in amounts to be unspecified, and now he's come out with a huge spending program," Clinton said at a news conference in Little Rock. Ark. "I think it's very difficult to take this seriously." Clinton has proposed requiring employers to spend an amount equal to 1.5 percent of payroll for job-training and education programs for workers. al training school in Union, N.J., before flying to Connecticut for a fund-raising luncheon in Middlebury and a speech to businessmen in Ansonia. The lunch raised about $100,000 for the state Republican Party, said campaign spokeswoman Torie Clarke. Bush unveiled his plan at a vocation- Speaking in shirtleaves at Warsaw Park in Ansonia, Bush railed against Clinton's economic proposals, which he said included the largest tax increase in history. In a reference to the criticism he drew for breaking his no-taxes pledge in 1990, Bush shouted, "Once you make one mistake, you don't make it again" Bush cut short his campaign stop in Connecticut to fly to Florida to inspect damage from Hurricane Andrew. Politicking up to the moment he left here, Bush shouted out to the crowd as he boarded his helicopter, "Help get a new Congress; help me clean the House!" It was Bush's third proposal in five days that would require offsetting spending cuts in unspecified programs. In his convention speech, the president proposed across-the-board tax cuts — he didn't say how large — and a checkoff plan allowing Americans to use their tax returns to designate up to 10 percent of their taxes for reducing the national debt. The centerpiece of Bush's plan calls for $3,000 vouchers for adults to use for retraining at trade schools or community colleges. 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