CBS Evening News - 1988-02-23
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[0:00] :00 Now let's go to CBS.
[0:05] This is the CBS Evening News. Dan Rattle
[0:08] reporting. Good evening. Republican
[0:11] presidential candidate Pat Robertson
[0:13] today said he believes someone may have
[0:15] purposely timed news of the preacher
[0:17] Jimmy Swagert sex scandal to hurt his
[0:20] chances in the South, especially in
[0:21] South Carolina. He didn't say who and he
[0:24] had no proof. But he did say Vice
[0:26] President George Bush and Bush
[0:28] operatives have been playing dirty
[0:30] politics and are planning more against
[0:32] him. The Bush campaign response flat
[0:34] denial and calling Robertson's
[0:36] suspicions outrageous. This comes as all
[0:39] the candidates drive for the 20 Super
[0:42] Tuesday primaries in caucuses March 8th
[0:44] with the latest contest tonight.
[0:46] Caucuses in Minnesota, primary in South
[0:48] Dakota. Bob Schiffer reports. The
[0:50] delegate count tonight may be small, but
[0:52] the stakes are big time.
[0:54] >> All I wanted was a chance to succeed, to
[0:57] build a
[0:57] >> way. Back in December, George Bush field
[0:59] tested his first television commercials
[1:01] in South Dakota, but made only a minimal
[1:03] effort in that state and in Minnesota,
[1:06] feeling both were practically in Bob
[1:08] Dole's backyard. Maybe some candidates
[1:11] can ignore you,
[1:13] but the results are going to be known
[1:15] tonight, and they're going to be flashed
[1:17] around the country. A Dole victory in
[1:20] both would be quite important and would
[1:22] give him some added uh some needed badly
[1:25] needed momentum. But the problem for
[1:27] Dole and Minnesota was not George Bush.
[1:30] Jack Kemp campaign hard here, but as a
[1:33] caucus state where what counts most is
[1:35] getting y