Word: campaigners
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Goodgame is too modest: he, like Duffy, spent the past year on the campaign trail. While Goodgame misses California, he relishes his new assignment. "Michael and I agree that the only thing worse than covering the White House would be not ever getting to cover it," he says. So far, the wait seems worth...
...opponents have lost the separation-of-powers argument, they have already filed numerous other cases contending that the restrictions on sentencing violate due process of law. The Mistretta case, says President Ephraim Margolin of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, is merely the "opening shot in a lengthy campaign...
...members of the Democratic National Committee vote on Feb. 10, more will be at stake than replacing Paul Kirk as their top technician. Ironically, Brown could end up rivaling Jesse Jackson as America's pre-eminent black leader and thus steal some thunder from the man whose campaign he helped manage and whose specter has hovered over this contest. Brown would also become, for better or worse, a symbol of his party: either an embodiment of the commitment to fairness and equality that has been at the heart of the Democrats' creed or, from another viewpoint, the final snub...
Brown's chance to play politics on the national level came when Ted Kennedy tapped him to be his deputy campaign manager in 1980. He ran the Senator's California primary race, juggling the rivalries there to produce one of the campaign's few successes...
When the 1988 election approached, Brown initially turned down Jackson's request for him to run his campaign. But as the primaries were ending, Jackson gave a speech at a Washington fund raiser about how his quest had changed America and the role of blacks. "What we've accomplished has been historically meaningful," Jackson said. "Now it's time to put my first team on the field." While he was speaking, he had his hand on Brown's shoulder. Brown was moved. He agreed to come aboard as convention manager...