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Before he became Bob Dole’s running mate for president, Jack Kemp was actually a Bob Dole opponent. Kemp endorsed Dole’s primary opponent, Steve Forbes (who dropped out of the race). And in 1988, Kemp ran against George Bush and Dole for the Republican nomination. He dropped out of the race, but became Bush’s secretary of Housing and Urban Development.
Kemp is used to switching jobs. From 1957 to ’70, he was a quarter-back for the Buffalo Bills. During the off-season, he was a special adviser to the guy who was California’s gover-nor at the time, Ronald Reagan. And when he retired from football, Kemp was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives from Buffalo, N.Y., a job he held from 1971 to ’89.
