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WASHINGTON -- Former U.S. drug czar and Education Secretary William Bennett has turned a compilation of old-fashioned values into a runaway best-seller called The Book of Virtues.
It could be his springboard to a presidential run in 1996.
The book has sold 3 million copies in six months on the best-seller list and transformed Bennett, a conservative intellectual, into a figure to be reckoned with in Republican Party politics. But he sounds ambivalent about the presidency.
"When you run for president, you've got to give up your life for a couple of years," said Bennett, who served as President Ronald Reagan's education secretary from 1985-88 and as President George Bush's drug czar...