NEWS FROM THE HEARTLAND
February 10, 1995
by The Associated Press
Alexander urges ousting 'intellectual elite'
WASHINGTON - Conservative activists from around the country reveled
Thursday in
their ascendancy to power and pledged to battle on to the White House.
Presidential hopeful Lamar Alexander urged them to vanquish Washington's
"intellectual elite."
Alexander played to the conservatives with repeated quotations from their
hero
Ronald Reagan, recalling the former president's warning about an
intellectual
Washington clique.
"Dealing with that little elite is the unfinished business of the Reagan
agenda,
and it was the main reason for the rejection of the Clinton presidency in
November," he said.
Using Reagan's name for the former Soviet bloc, Alexander said the "evil
empire
has collapsed but the government in Washington has become what we might
call an
arrogant empire."
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(Note: Alexander is the former president of The University of Tennessee)
February 10, 1995
by The Associated Press
Alexander urges ousting 'intellectual elite'
WASHINGTON - Conservative activists from around the country reveled
Thursday in
their ascendancy to power and pledged to battle on to the White House.
Presidential hopeful Lamar Alexander urged them to vanquish Washington's
"intellectual elite."
Alexander played to the conservatives with repeated quotations from their
hero
Ronald Reagan, recalling the former president's warning about an
intellectual
Washington clique.
"Dealing with that little elite is the unfinished business of the Reagan
agenda,
and it was the main reason for the rejection of the Clinton presidency in
November," he said.
Using Reagan's name for the former Soviet bloc, Alexander said the "evil
empire
has collapsed but the government in Washington has become what we might
call an
arrogant empire."
###
(Note: Alexander is the former president of The University of Tennessee)