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...close he came, and yet by the next morning the fire had gone out again, and by Monday night the decision was definitely no. But after he returned from a speech in Philadelphia, he was back on the fence. Alma Powell told her children that she wouldn't believe he was really getting out until he stood before the cameras and said...
...that tipped the balance--not even the obvious ones. His family heard the rumors that they had somehow vetoed his running. "There was a lot more to it than that," says Michael, as he pauses, lets out a sigh and begins to tell what happened. "I hear 'It was Alma' all the time. Well, it wasn't just Alma. This is a much more sophisticated, subtle story than that...
...Alma? There was never a veto. Powell never asked...
...have to understand how this family works, Michael explains. Everyone who knows Alma says that if her husband had chosen to run, she would have supported him, however opposed she was to the whole idea. And that's why he never came out and asked her, but tried to read the signals instead. "My mother would look at him and say, 'If you want to do it, I'm in,'" Michael says. "The kids would say the same thing: 'We're in.' Because we've done this before. We're always in. That's a cardinal rule in this house...
...wrote in a letter to Harry Lewis last night that I have never been more embarrassed and disappointed in my alma mater than I am right now," said McCarthy. "The students are fighting and I will continue to fight...