CAMPAIGN NOTEBOOK

By BY CHARLOTTE FALTERMAYER, JANICE M. HOROWITZ, BELINDA LUSCOMBE, JEFFERY C. RUBIN, ALAIN L. SANDERS, LEWIS M. SIMONS AND SIDNEY URQUHART

DIOGENES INDEX (Searching for an honest man)

"I will vote against this bill, though I am not for same-sex marriage, because I believe that this debate is fundamentally ugly [and] flawed." --Senator John Kerry (D., Mass.), the only Senator up for re-election to vote against the antigay Defense of Marriage Act

THERE'S NO PLACE LIKE HOME, THERE'S NO PLACE LIKE HOME, THERE'S NO PLACE LIKE HOME

Bob Dole brought numerology on the campaign trail with his mystical meditations on the number 15. Now he seems to believe that he will beguile people into voting for him if he repeats everything three times.

"Don't worry about this election. We're going to win, we're going to win, we're going to win." --speaking to his former colleagues on Capitol Hill

"They're going to tax everything, everything, everything!" --on a second Clinton term, at a campaign rally in Louisiana

"That's all they have is fear, fear, fear." --on Democratic "scare ads" in Louisiana

REMBRANDT HE AIN'T

Pulitzer prizewinning Atlanta Constitution cartoonist Mike Luckovich hitched a ride on Air Force One last week and persuaded the President to pen his own caricature. So was it the pain of artistic creation the President was feeling? "He wasn't comfortable doing it," says Luckovich with a laugh, "because he's not too good at it."

HAIR TODAY, GONE TOMORROW

As if Ross Perot did not already have an uphill battle, he chose a bearded vice-presidential nominee. It's been nearly 90 years since America has had a bewhiskered or stubbly-faced Vice President. Indiana Senator Charles Fairbanks served four years as Teddy Roosevelt's Veep. When he attempted to reclaim the office as Charles Evans Hughes' running mate, the two men lost the 1916 election by a whisker.

PINOCCHIO INDEX

Although the Dole campaign said Roger Stone did "no formal work" for the campaign, they lost no time in jettisoning the "volunteer and unpaid adviser" after it was reported that the former Nixon aide had placed X-rated ads on the Internet. But an internal campaign memo obtained by TIME suggests that Stone's role was not so informal. The memo lists Stone as being responsible for opposition research and "bracketing," which is the practice of sending spokesmen and hecklers wherever Clinton is headed.

To: Long-Range Planning Group From: Paul Manafort Re: Agenda Items for Meeting on Thursday 9-5 Date: September 4, 1996

Following up on our meeting of Tuesday, I have set for the items that we need to discuss...I have set out the topics by individuals/divisions for convenience.

Opposition Research and Bracketing - Stone 1. bracketing strategy - who is available

cc: Reed Rumsfeld Davis