Bowie's fascination with the bizarre was fuelled when he met dancer Lindsay Kemp: " He lived on his emotions, he was a wonderful influence.

After Kemp cast Bowie with Hermione Farthingale for a poetic minuet, the pair began dating ; they soon moved into a London flat together.

During the 1984 Convention, with Trent Lott as Republican Party Platform Committee Chairman, Congressmen Kemp and Newt Gingrich claimed control of the party platform to the consternation of G. O. P.

In 1986, during a House floor debate over whether the United States should host the 1994 FIFA World Cup, Kemp proclaimed: " I think it is important for all those young out there — who someday hope to play real football, where you throw it and kick it and run with it and put it in your hands — a distinction should be made that football is democratic capitalism, whereas soccer is a European socialist sport.

In fact, most of the Republican electorate found themselves unfamiliar with Kemp early in his campaign.

Although Kemp tried to appeal to the conservatives, his libertarian philosophies of tolerance and individual rights and his commitment to supporting minorities, women, blue-collar workers and organized labor clashed with conservative voters ' social and religious values.

Kemp was among the majority of Republican candidates in opposition to Reagan's INF Treaty agreement with the Soviet Union's Mikhail Gorbachev despite general Republican voter approval of the treaty.

By early 1988, the moderates ( Bush and Dole ) were clearly the front-runners and Kemp was battling with Pat Robertson as the conservative alternative to the moderates.

In Bare Knuckles and Back Rooms: My Life in American Politics, campaign chairman Rollins described Kemp as a candidate with foibles.

HUD Secretary Kemp with Sybil Mobley, a Florida A & M University Dean.

The budget left him with $ 256 million for his plan, which Kemp increased during some appropriations battles.

In 1992, with H. Ross Perot mounting a formidable campaign, Kemp was again considered a Vice Presidential candidate.

Kemp was partly at fault for not achieving either of his primary goals because he did not get along with the rest of the Cabinet.

Kemp did not expect to be retained if the Republicans were reelected in 1992, and some pundits agreed with him.

In January 1995, Kemp's stated reason for not entering the 1996 Republican Party presidential primaries was that his personal beliefs were out of balance with the contemporary Republican political landscape: Kemp opposed term limits, he always preferred tax cuts to anything resembling a balanced budget amendment and, unlike most Republicans, favored federal incentives to combat urban poverty.

In 1995, Gloria Borger noted Kemp was not in step with the 1994 Contract with America.

Many thought Kemp had destroyed his own political future with the endorsement, and Kemp profusely apologized to Dole's campaign offices.

After it became clear Dole would be the nominee, Kemp attempted to form a bipartisan seminar with Felix Rohatyn to produce a fiscal plan that could be endorsed by both parties.

At the 1984 Republican National Convention, Kemp, along with allies such as Gingrich and Lott, added a plank to the party platform that put President Reagan on record as ruling out tax increases.

In meetings with the president that excluded Dole, Kemp reworked the budget to exclude crucial Social Security cutbacks.

Due to agreement on the self-help policy that Louis Farrakhan has endorsed in many fora including the Million Man March, Kemp in a sense aligned himself with Farrakhan.

In the early 21st century, Kemp continued to be considered along with Reagan as the politician most responsible for the implementation of supply-side tax cuts and along with Steve Forbes as the political figure most responsible for their continued place in the marketplace of political ideas.

In 1988, if Kemp had won his campaign for the United States Presidency, it would have made him the first person to move from the United States House of Representatives to the White House since James Garfield.

During the Reagan presidency, when Kemp was able to effect tax cutting, a leading United States Senate tax-cutting proponent was Democrat Bill Bradley, a former basketball star.

In 2006 Kemp, along with 2004 vice-presidential nominee John Edwards, co-chaired the Council on Foreign Relations task force on Russia, producing a document called " Russia ’ s Wrong Direction: What the United States Can and Should Do ".

The game was televised in the United States by CBS, with Ray Scott handling the play-by-play duties and color commentators Pat Summerall and Jack Kemp in the broadcast booth.

The United States presidential election of 1996 was a contest between the Democratic national ticket of President Bill Clinton from Arkansas and Vice President Al Gore from Tennessee and the Republican national ticket of former Senator Bob Dole of Kansas for President and former Housing Secretary Jack Kemp from New York for Vice President.

* August 15 – Bob Dole is nominated for President of the United States, and Jack Kemp for Vice President, at the Republican National Convention in San Diego, California.

Kemp Mill is a census-designated place and an unincorporated census area in Montgomery County, Maryland, United States.

Kemp Mill is, however, recognized by the United States Census Bureau as a Census-designated Place, and by the United States Geological Survey as a populated place located at ( 39. 033832 ,-77. 024541 ).

Kemp is a town in Bryan County, Oklahoma, United States.

Kemp is a city in Kaufman County, Texas, United States.

The term " psychobilly " was first used in the lyrics to the country song " One Piece at a Time ", written by Wayne Kemp for Johnny Cash, which was a Top 10 hit in the United States in 1976.

In early 2009, Ross Kemp on Gangs began airing in the United States on the Investigation Discovery channel under the title " Gang Nation.

His most recent collaboration with the late former HUD Secretary Jack Kemp, Our Communities, Our Homes: Pathways to Housing and Homeownership in America ’ s Cities and States, is a guide for local leaders in designing comprehensive housing policies.

*" Our Communities, Our Homes: Pathways to Housing and Homeownership in America ’ s Cities and States ", ( ISBN 978-0-9761481-1-1, Joint Center for Housing Studies, 2007 ) with Jack Kemp, Kent W. Colton, and Nicolas P. Retsinas

It hosted the 1996 Republican National Convention, which nominated Bob Dole and Jack Kemp for President and Vice President of the United States, respectively.

McEwen drew upon his connections and quickly had high-profile endorsements from Focus on the Family leader James Dobson, former United States Attorney General Edwin Meese, Cincinnati Bengals player Anthony Muñoz, American Family Association president Donald Wildmon, Citizens for Community Values anti-pornography crusader Phil Burress, and former New York congressman Jack Kemp, who came to the district to campaign for him.

Kemp was a 1929 graduate of the United States Naval Academy, where he was a member of Phi Alpha Theta.

That same day The president of Dakin, Roger Dakin placed an order by cable to Japan for 25 dozen of the little velveteen toys, by the end of the day he changed his order to 300 dozen. By 1961 Dream Pets were being designed by Dakin's Senior toy designer Virginia Kemp in the United States.

Other speakers included Elizabeth Dole, United States Secretary of Transportation ; Jeane Kirkpatrick, U. S. Ambassador to the United Nations ( who delivered her now-famous " Blame America First " speech ); and Congressman Jack Kemp of Buffalo, New York.

McEwen had high profile endorsements from Focus on the Family leader James Dobson, former United States Attorney General Edwin Meese, Cincinnati Bengals player Anthony Munoz, American Family Association president Donald Wildmon, Citizens for Community Values anti-pornography crusader Phil Burress, and former New York congressman and 1996 vice presidential candidate Jack Kemp, who came to the district to campaign for him.

Even though Kemp was from New York, the state didn't back his campaign for Vice President of the United States.