1.   And he wants to be the one to take on presumed Republican nominee and Texas Attorney General John Cornyn come November.

2.   At his hotel suite he has separate meetings scheduled Thursday with Gov. George Pataki, New Jersey Gov. Christie Whitman and Bob Dole, the presumed Republican presidential nominee.

3.   Bob Dole is the presumed Republican Party nominee, who will oppose President Bill Clinton in the November election.

4.   A profile of Reed, and the political impact he is having on the presumed Republican nominee.

5.   All this has happened just as the campaign between Bush and the presumed Democratic nominee, Lt. Gov. Buddy MacKay, is hitting full stride.

6.   Buchanan had hoped to speak in prime time during the Republican convention, but aides to Dole, the presumed nominee, locked him out.

7.   Bush, the presumed Republican presidential nominee, made the DNA remark during a teleconference from Austin with a Catholic journalists organization meeting in Baltimore.

8.   Bush, the presumed Republican presidential nominee, echoed that view.

9.   Clinton has used the issue against former Sen. Bob Dole, the presumed Republican presidential nominee, who had opposed the measure.

10.   Despite their overwhelming support for their presumed nominee, Dole, only half the delegates say they believe that Dole will carry their particular states.