PERSONAL Married Barbara Pierce. Four sons, one daughter.
.On foreign policy: The Gulf War and Panama: Bush orchestrated the lightning victory that liberated Kuwait last winter. Earlier, after being accused of indecision, he dispatched an invasion force that over threw Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega.
.On the economy: The government has piled up its two largest deficits ever on bush's watch : $269 billion in fiscal 1991 and an estimated $399 billion for fiscal 1992. The national debt will stand at nearly $4.6 trillion at the end of Bush's firs term. Bush also allowed taxes to be raised, defying his own no-new-taxes campaign pledge.
.On trade: Bush took steps to open world markets, including a free trade pact with Canada and Mexico and the liberalization of global trading rules. Heading into the year, he took a tougher stance with Japan on its trade imbalance with the U.S. But his mission to Tokyo with U.S. chief executives was widely viewed as a bust.
.On education: Bush aspired to make American students the world's best in math and science by the year 2000, but the latest international tests show U.S. pupils lagging for back. Bush also made school choice a cornerstone of his education reform plan.
DAVID DUKE
BORN: July 1, 1950, in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
EDUCATION: Graduated from Louisiana State University with a B.A. in history in 1974.
CAREER: Joined Ku Klux Klan in 1973 and in 1975 became leader or Grand Wizard. In 1980, left Klan amid charges he tried to sell secret membership rolls. Same year founded the National Association for the Advancement of White People. Louisiana state representative, 1989-91. Unsuccessfully sought Democratic nomination for President for U. S. Senate in 1990 and Louisiana governor in 1991.
PERSONAL Divorced. Two daughters.
.On his past as leader of the KU Klux Klan: "I've had intolerant moments. I regret any sort of intolerance that I've ever had."
.On Bush's performance: Duke says the president "sold out the Republican Party" in compromising with Democrats to produce a civil rights bill to combat discrimination against women and minorities in the workplace.
.On religion: "Over the last three years I've gotten closer to Christ than ever before in my life."
.On welfare reform: As a Louisiana legislator Duke introduced bills that, among other things, would have denied welfare to mothers convicted of drug offenses and provided financial incentives to welfare mothers to use long-term birth control devices.
.On his lack of a military record (Duke served as an English teacher in Laos with the State Department, but never in the Army): "I was refused [by the Army] because of what they called my racism."