Mr. du Pont was the first hopeful to declare himself officially a candidate for the

1988 Republican nomination, and his record as governor certainly makes a good case for why he should be President. As WFB puts it, "He was handed a state close to bankruptcy and eight years later, following policies which we will examine during this hour, left a state regenerated." Unfortunately, as the nation would learn over the next two years, Mr. du Pont's charisma level does not match his intelligence or his good nature. PdP: "Gary Hart ran for President for a year and a half, and Walter Mondale turned to him one day and said, 'Where's the beef?' Pete du Pont's campaigning started by putting the beef on the table the first day: ending farm subsidies, tying drivers' licenses to drug tests, researching and deploying the Strategic Defense Initiative, and so forth."