1988 dick gephardt

Dick Gephardt's long political career. The term congressman had pinned his hopes of reaching the White House on an early campaign victory in Iowa, where he won during a previous presidential bid in Gephardt will announce he is dropping out of the race at 1 p. Tuesday 2 p.

Dick Gephardt for President Campaign Brochure. Dear Democrat,. I'm running for President because I believe Democrats can win the White House in '88 by nominating a candidate who stands firm on Democratic principles and offers sensible solutions built upon the best ideas from every part of our party. I believe that kind of candidate is our best hope to recapture the voters we will need to win in I have been that kind of Democrat all my life. That may well be why my colleagues in the House of Representatives chose me to chair their Democratic Caucus because I believe that Democrats of all stripes have something positive to offer.

Dick Gephardt is talking food, discussing the Indian dishes he whips up on the rare occasions he gets to cook. And flowers, Gephardt says. The Missouri congressman is far from his planter boxes and untended pots and pans. Still, he seems at home as he sits in a dirt-streaked purple minivan, shuttling across western Iowa from one Democratic gathering to another, musing over curry and crocuses.

Not on our side—but an honest fighter nonetheless. In a room in the St Louis convention centre, not far from the city hall where he entered political life as an alderman three decades ago, and close to Union Station, where he launched his first run for president in a noisy celebration in , he gathered with his family for one last campaign appearance. Only 24 hours earlier Mr Gephardt had seemed supremely confident, predicting with all sincerity that he would win the Iowa caucuses, as he did in