European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 21, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday june 21, 1991 the stars and stripes Page 13  Wicker strategy alone won t help democrats in 92 they re off at last. Leading democrats took 21 major contributors and a Gaggle of real and imagined presidential contenders to a a a strategy session in the Virginia Hunt country last week. Then the Wisconsin democratic convention staged the first candidate a cattle show of the 1992 Campaign. Answering the Siren song in Milwaukee were former sen. Paul Tsongas of Massachusetts who has confessed his candidacy plus three possibles Sens. John a Rockefeller in of West Virginia and Tom Harkin of Iowa and gov. Bill Clinton of  in Virginia were All of the above and Sens. Bill Bradley of new Jersey Lloyd Bentsen of Texas Bob Kerrey of Nebraska and George j. Mitchell of Maine and rep. Richard a. Gephardt of Missouri. Notably absent were goes. Mario Cuomo of new York and l. Douglas Wilder of Virginia sen. Albert Gore or. Of Tennessee and the Rev. Jesse Jackson. These 13 a count pm 13 a Are the most mentioned democratic possibilities for 1992, which does t mean any of them will be nominated. But it now  to talk about a presidential Campaign that a actually happening a a dubious advantage. At both democrats made it Clear that they have a theme for that Campaign president Bush has no Domestic program and no interest in Domestic problems. The party chairman Ron Brown went so far As to declare Bush a very vulnerable in 1992�?� a an insight not generally shared inside or outside Washington a Beltway a because this administration has absolutely no Domestic  this approach May run afoul of two substantial problems a americans count on their president to walk tall abroad and keep taxes Down at Home while All those democratic mayors governors and members of Congress take the blame for Domestic shortcomings. A the democratic Domestic Agenda is widely perceived to consist , welfare taxes and spending mostly for the poor and the Blacks coupled with a Lack of interest in smart bombs and Patriot missiles. This does not appear to be the Best route to 270 electoral votes. A a a a Quot. A a. A a at the Virginia meeting much was made of the need to plot a winning strategy. That can to Hurt and might help provided that its a Good one and that those who make it find a candidate who can persuade the voters to accept it. Neither is guaranteed. Take the apparently splendid Issue of health care which millions of americans done to have and can to pay for. Its hard enough to devise a plan to meet these real needs. It will be just As hard to make a vast Complex and costly program not Only comprehensible but attractive to american voters. Many who already have medical care will not want to foot the Bill for others less fortunate Many employers whom Vovou 5uppdrtfor president in 92? Gib Deckhardt t50ngakis? Nunn of them governor Mario scenario. Hey Bounds Good to Mew wont want to pay insurance premiums out of profits and Many doctors and hospitals wont Welcome greater government control. In a political climate that rewards sound bites bumper stickers and shootout debates a rather than position papers and manifestos a the health care Issue therefore will require a convincing and articulate candidate father than Early Bird strategy sessions Bush meanwhile May Well pre empt the Issue with High sounding rhetoric a i want to be the health care president and empty legislation. John Suni Inu the White House chief of staff is saying that whatever the democrats propose will be a socialization Quot a a charge that May be hard for democrats to shake and anyway what makes the democrats think the 1992 presidential Campaign will be fought on serious issues such As health care and education rather than on an update of the Willie 1 Lorton and a rehash of desert storm and a nationwide adaptation of Jesse i a elms quota commercial if Bush has no interest in Domestic issues who can believe that he will stand silent in the bully pulpit and let the democrats dictate the Domestic Arena As the 1992 Battleground a there again what the party of Franklin d. Roosevelt needs is not so much deep think strategy sessions As a i modern version of for a a candidate who knows where he or she wants the country to go and How to get there who can persuade the Public to go along take the blows of a Campaign and hit Back harder. No amount of Advance planning can give a candidate the ability to do any of that if he or she does no to have it to begin with. A. C the now York times a George f. Will Taylor probe shows what might have been the dust of americans 12th Percsi Washington Monument Dent has been disturbed in a Louisville it was a typical High summer Day in ky., Tomb. A Coroner and a forensic an 19th-Century Washington sunny hot Throp Logist Are seeking to still or con humid and dangerous. Humidity is Natu firm speculation that Zachary Taylor not a to this River town and was even worse Lincoln was the first president Assassin then before the draining of the Marsh rated. Whatever is Learned in this Wall that Lay Breeding mosquitoes where the serve human happiness by underscoring tidal Basin and Jefferson memorial now the Lovely contingency of history. Are. If Taylor was deliberately poisoned the danger arose from the nature the foul deed most Likely was done by of mid-19th Century Urban life the Abun southerners angry about his opposition dance of horses and animals in the midst to expansion of slavery. If so the plotters 0f human population the absence of Sani fell victim to the vagaries of things. They tation measures and of scientific underway have saved the Union by making standing that soon would produce Public More Likely the failure of the South a health advances concerning housing and eventual resort to arms. Food handling. Taylor a condition in his final Days was orators did rattle on in those Days so consistent with arsenic poisoning. If that Taylor broiled in the Sun for several occurred traces of arsenic will be Detec hours refreshing himself with ice water table in bits of hair fingernails Bones chilled Buttermilk and cherries and per and other tissues. Haps other fruits and vegetables. Washing what happened on thursday july 4, ionians had been told to avoid such things 1850? what usually happens on the because the country was experiencing Epi fourth of july Only More so. There was demies of Asiatic cholera much speechifying. The country did not that night Taylor was uncomfortable yet have major league baseball or mtg the next Day he worked a bit but by sat to entertain it. Rhetoric was popular in urday his family was alarmed. An army text ailment. And on that Day he was on surgeon diagnosed a cholera Moribus a a hand at a ceremony at the unfinished term denoting a variety of intestinal ail ments. He died july 9. And immigration and before the birth of a a old rough and ready Quot As ins troops new political party that found a nation affectionately called him was the hero of saving Leader m a former Illinois Congress the Battle of Buena Vista in 1847. He was Man who had opposed the War that had a. Southerner who owned 140 slaves but made Taylor a hero and hence president he was a nationalist who said he would history is a Rich weave of Many threads personally take the Field and hang Succes Many of them it pulled out could cause a zionists. Radical unravelling setting the past in to furthermore he opposed the expansion lion As a foaming sea of exhilarating Coulm of slavery. He said that it Congress passed agencies. A the Wilmot proviso Banning slavery in Ter. Lor More than a Century we have been i topics acquired from Mexico he would plied and Bel bored by various historicism sign it. Congress never passed it. If Taylor purporting to prove that what happened had lived might it have had to happen that history is a dry Story of when he died he was on the verge of the ineluctable working of vast impersonal sending to Congress a message demanding forces unfolding according to Iron Laws of immediate admission of California and social evolution. People the historicist new Mexico As free states and settlement say Are Mere corks Bobbing on powerful of a new Mexico Texas Border dispute in currents. This demoralizing doctrine Lefavor of the former. Nies the possibility ultimately of meaning now it is conceivable that had he Ful self government for individuals or a lived he might have cowed secessionists Lions. Into permanent peace Bleness. But it is hence either Way the investigation turns much More Likely he would have provoked out Taylor s death tantalize it gives a secessionists bringing on bloodshed. Glimpse of an always Inspirit ing Prospect a Daniel Webster said at the time a if possibilities paths not taken. General Taylor had lived we should have tile late of a president 141 july fourths had a civil  we would have had it be ago w whispers in our ear "1 lie River of Histo fore another decade of growth of the by could have Cut a different  North a strength through industrialism c the Washington Posi