USA: EXPECTED REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE GEORGE BUSH JR. APPEARS TO BE TIRING OF REPORTERS' QUESTIONS ABOUT HIS POSSIBLE PAST DRUG USE

Record ID: 990354

  • Title: USA: EXPECTED REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE GEORGE BUSH JR. APPEARS TO BE TIRING OF REPORTERS' QUESTIONS ABOUT HIS POSSIBLE PAST DRUG USE
  • Date: 20th August 1999
  • Summary: ROANOKE, VIRGINIA, UNITED STATES (AUGUST 19, 1999)(NBC - NO ACCESS USA/CNN) 1. SV GEORGE BUSH JR. WORKS CROWDS AT CAMPAIGN EVENT (2 SHOTS) 0.10 2. MCU (English) BUSH SAYING "Should I become the president would I have background checks for people who work for me and in the White House, and, if I did, could I pass the standards of the background check? The answer is absolutely. Not only could I pass the background check of the standards applied in today's White House, I could have passed the background check on the standards applied on the most stringent conditions when my dad was president." 0.37 COLUMBUS, OHIO, UNITED STATES 3. MCU (English) BUSH SAYING "I was asked yesterday about a form that says seven years and I answered the question. What you've just heard from me is my answer throughout the course of the campaign. Some people may like it, some people may not like it. I hope they like it but if they don't I can understand they can go find somebody else to be for president." 0.58 AUSTIN, TEXAS, UNITED STATES (AUGUST 18, 1999) 4. MCU (English) BUSH SAYING "Somebody floats a rumour and causes you to ask a question and that's the game in American politics. I refuse to play it. That is a game and you just fell for the trap. I refuse to play it." 1.18 5. LV PRESSER 1.26 AUSTIN, TEXAS, UNITED STATES (FILE) 6. LV BUSH JR. WITH EX-PRESIDENT FATHER 1.35 7. LV BUSH JR. WITH WIFE LAURA 1.39 8. MCU LAURA BUSH SAYING "I dread criticism of my husband. On the other hand, I love George and I'm very proud of him and I know he'd make a great president." (ENGLISH) 1.49 9. CU OF BUSH T-SHIRTS 1.52 AMES, IOWA, UNITED STATES (RECENT) 10. SV/MCU OTHER CANDIDATES CAMPAIGNING: ELIZABETH DOLE, STEVE FORBES, DAN QUAYLE (3 SHOTS) 1.59 WASHINGTON, DC, UNITED STATES (AUGUST 19, 1999)(REUTERS) 11. MCU (English) POLITICAL ANALYST PETER EISNER SAYING "If (the other candidates are) like the general population many of them have used drugs and many of them have not always been faithful in their marriages. Probably what each of them is hoping is that Bill Clinton has more or less inoculated them against having to worry about these questions, whether they answer them or not." 2.16 LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES (FILE)(NBC) 12. SLV BOB DOLE IN 1996 CAMPAIGN 2.21 13. CAMPAIGN ADVERTISEMENT FROM BOB DOLE'S 1996 CAMPAIGN IN WHICH A CLIP IS PLAYED OF CLINTON SAYING HE WOULD HAVE INHALED WHILE SMOKING MARIJUANA BUT HE COULDN'T 2.33 WASHINGTON, DC, UNITED STATES (AUGUST 19, 1999)(REUTERS) 14. MCU (English) MAN SAYING "I don't think it will mean too much in the long run, but he should answer the question. He should be truthful. That's all they're asking." 2.43 15. MCU (SOUNDBITE)(English) WOMAN SAYING "I'm sure everybody in this country has tried something they don't want to admit and I don't think it's anybody's business and I don't think it judges them as a person at all." 2.51 16. SV REPORTER AND POLITICAL ANALYST EISNER 2.54 17. MCU (English) EISNER SAYING "We really should be talking about some of the other questions which they also might not answer like what are their sources of income, who are their major funders, what are the vested interests that are behind them. These are issues that are of much more interest to me and I suspect, after looking at what we've gone through the last eight years, I suspect a large segment of the American people are also interested in much more substantial questions." 3.23 18. MCU (English) MAN SAYING "What about the guy who got caught with a little cocaine or even a little rock of crack back in the 80's in Houston who's been in jail for 20 years. And they now know it was a mistake and maybe they could be governor if they had the right pedigree and the right parents." 3.40 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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