On the Road with Dean's Sleepless Summer Tour

september 8, 2003  10:47 am
On the Road with Dean's Sleepless Summer Tour
Last week, Howard Dean of Vermont, a onetime dark-horse presidential candidate who is suddenly -- to political insiders almost inexplicably -- leading the pack of Democratic candidates, undertook a 10-city, three-day flyaround of America. The "Sleepless Summer Tour," it was called -- in conscious rebuke of President George W. Bush's alleged inaction in the face of America's problems. Three AAN papers went along for the ride. The Memphis Flyer's Jackson Baker found in Dean a 21st century remake of "Give 'Em Hell" Harry Truman.