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...sounded frank and loving about her husband. "He is a very private person, and he's not the candidate???I am." Before finally agreeing to release his tax returns, "we got through a whole discussion, and ... his reaction then was, 'Gerry, I don't want to hurt you, you know?here they are.' " Still, when a defense of Zaccaro would have been foolish, she demurred. After learning early this year that he had, in 1979, bought back her half-share in the Manhattan building, she said, " 'Why did you do it?'... He said, 'It was legal.' And I said, 'Sure...
...coax him into playing fewer tennis matches with celebrities, such as Andy Williams and Arthur Ashe, and spending more time pressing the flesh. Still, his backhand is naturally superior to his handshake. During an Italian-American street festival in Chambersburg, N.J., Jimmy Carter had to prompt the Governor?and candidate???to climb onto a chair with him so he could be seen by the crowd of 15,000. Then, while Carter waved exuberantly, Byrne could man age only a stiff-armed salute. "I think I am a little less of an extravert than most politicians," he admits...
...either a convention deadlock or the fear of defeat in November paralyzes the party, the possibility of a compromise candidate???now only remote?would increase. At the moment nearly all such speculation centers on Connally. "You couldn't write a better scenario for Connally than what is happening in the Republican presidential campaign," says one of his political aides. But Connally's associates insist that he is making no move to seize the opportunity?yet. He is only giving speeches on college campuses, appearing at party fund raisers, keeping his options open and staying neutral in the Reagan-Ford bloodletting...
...Atlanta Establishment, the city's newspapers and the black community. Carter positioned himself as a populist to the right of Sanders. For the entire campaign, "CuffLinks Carl" was derided as a tool of the moneyed interests. It was a bitter contest to determine which was the less wealthy candidate???and by any standards, Carter was well...
...closed-door huddles with delegates, Johnson argued that the air would start hissing out of the Kennedy balloon after the second ballot. Kennedy, he insisted, would be a weak candidate???mistrusted by farmers (Kennedy declared himself opposed to high price supports back in 1955), widely mistrusted by Negroes, vulnerable to Republican charges of absenteeism (he had missed nearly 80% of the Senate roll-call votes since the session began in January). Johnson tried hard to argue down the Northern Democrats' two main objections to his own candidacy: i) he is too conservative to be acceptable to labor and eggheads...