Cheney Attacks Clinton-Gore Education Record

Philadelphia

Republican vice presidential nominee Richard B. Cheney went on the offensive last night, using his nomination-acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention to repeatedly criticize the Clinton-Gore administration on many fronts, including its education track record.

When Texas Gov. George W. Bush of Texas selected the former Wyoming congressman to be his running mate last month, Democrats rushed to criticize Mr. Cheney’s conservative voting record during the 10 years—1979 to 1989—that he served in Congress. Critics highlighted Mr. Cheney’s votes against funding for the federal Head Start program and the creation of the U.S. Department of Education, and his support of cutting federal education aid.

But on the third night of the Republican National Convention, Mr. Cheney, who served as secretary of defense when Gov. Bush’s father was in the White House, shot back. He charged that “poor and disadvantaged children [have fallen] further and further behind” under the current White House administration. “For all their sentimental talk about children, Clinton and Gore have done nothing to help children oppressed by bureaucracy, monopoly,...