FEATURE/GLAMOUR Magazine Steps Up Political Coverage -- October Issue Features an Early Behind-the-Scenes Report From Elizabeth Dole's Presidential Campaign Trail.

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE FEATURES)--Sept. 9, 1999--

Bob Dole Brags About His Baseball Caps

Promoting His Wife's Presidency

As Campaign 2000 begins to heat up, GLAMOUR magazine spotlights Elizabeth Dole, who talks one-on-one with editor-in-chief Bonnie Fuller about a host of issues that affect American women including abortion and gun control.

Throughout the coming year, GLAMOUR magazine will feature candid interviews with several key presidential candidates to illuminate issues that are pertinent to its 12 million readers.

As part of the Elizabeth Dole interview, GLAMOUR's national affairs editor David France joined her entourage during an intense two-day, 10-city tour in Iowa for the straw poll, where she placed third behind George W. Bush and Steve Forbes.

Dole's husband Bob, who said that he was thinking of giving money to Senator John McCain's campaign this spring, has taken a 180-degree turn, becoming his wife's biggest booster. "I've been out there promoting her candidacy for three years," says Bob Dole. "I even ordered (baseball) caps a couple of years ago: Elizabeth Dole for President! I had the first Elizabeth Dole cap in the country, so I'm way ahead of the game."

Regarding her husband's relationship to her campaign, Elizabeth Dole says her bid for the presidency is not a "two-for-the-price-of-one administration." She explains, "In terms of co-presidency, it would not be, no. Bob and I had never felt that's the way it should be, because you would be voting for me, not him."

As she stumps on the trail wooing potential voters during what she promises will "be an unconventional campaign," Elizabeth Dole proposes that, "In our public schools it's perfectly appropriate to teach honesty, integrity, respect for your fellow man, civility, personal responsibility. Character does count." She divulges to GLAMOUR her opposition to adoption of children by gay couples--a platform that matches her conservative views opposing abortion except in cases of "life-of-the-mother, rape and incest"--and her support for displaying the Ten Commandments in public places, including schools. Dole's more liberal platform on gun control includes support for child safety locks and increased background checks on gun sales and an opposition to assault weapons.

In spite of embodying many goals of feminism, having paved the way for women on roads traditionally open only to men, Dole can seem distinctly non-feminist in her comportment. After one campaign stop, she gripped three beautiful young women by the shoulders, turned them toward a group of reporters, and said, "Don't you all agree that these three can turn out the fraternity boys for Dole?"

The full interview appears in the October issue of GLAMOUR magazine which hits newsstands on September 14.