By the summer time of 1988, Page and Adler & Shaykin managing partner Leonard P. Shaykin had formulated a conflict, and in August 1988, Page resigned as publisher and president and marketed his desire in the paper to his fellow investors. He served as vice president in the course of the Clinton administration from 1993 to 2001, defeating incumbents George H. W. Bush and Dan Quayle in 1992, and Bob Dole and Jack Kemp in 1996.