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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Mondale got his law degree on the G.I. Bill, went immediately into campaigning for Minnesota politicians, was appointed the state attorney general, named U.S. Senator to fill a vacancy, was elevated to Vice President by Jimmy Carter and has been running for President since January...
...nominees usually replace their party chairmen with their own people, but they generally wait until after the convention has ended. Even so, the firing of Manatt would probably not have caused much of a national stir had it not been for Mondale's choice of Bert Lance, President Carter's scandal-tainted Budget Director, to replace him. Whether they liked Manatt or not, and many did not, scores of delegates rushed to his defense. Willie Brown Jr., California's Democratic assembly speaker, sarcastically professed to see a plus for Mondale in the debacle. "He will...
...kept on, but with a watchful Mondale loyalist, Michael Berman, installed as director-and de facto ruler-of the D.N.C., and Lance was given overall charge of the Mondale campaign. It had been a damaging blunder: not only had Mondale saddled himself with an unseemly link to the Carter Administration; he had seemed weak and vacillating in handling the uproar. Said Campaign Chairman James Johnson: "We did it in a clumsy way, and we wish we hadn...
...Here I go again," announced the grayer but still grinning former President. "And I'm still talking about the same things . . . about simple human justice and basic human rights." It was vintage Jimmy Carter, and the convention crowd greeted his opening-night speech with respectful enthusiasm. But not every one had been certain that he would be so well received. Troubled by last week's controversy surrounding his former Budget Director, Bert Lance, some Democrats feared that Carter's appearance would only lengthen the shadow of his Administration over Walter Mondale's candidacy. Indeed, Carter...
...When Carter arrived in San Francisco, he may have still had his doubts. The Democratic National Committee had scheduled his speech for 8:30 p.m. E.D.T., a half-hour before the networks were to begin their coverage. At Lance's request, D.N.C. officials rearranged the schedule so that Carter could appear in prime time. The welcome response to Carter's address alleviated everyone's fears. By week's end there was even some talk of Carter's playing an active role in the Mondale-Ferraro campaign...