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...speakers on the panel, entitled "Why Reagan? Decisive Factors in Election '80," agreed that the debates had a significant influence on the outcome of the election. "The debates allowed Reagan to dispel his image as a racist warmonger," Rachelle Patterson, a correspondent for the Boston Globe who covered the Reagan campaign, said...
Said Reagan afterward: "I've examined myself, and I can't find any wounds." That, perhaps, was the biggest victory. Reagan was the challenger, who by credibly debating the incumbent could dispel lingering doubts about whether he was up to the job of President. Said Senior Adviser James Baker: "We only needed a draw to win." Reagan, in fact, did better than that. Said Carter Pollster Patrick Caddell: "It seems basically a wash, with maybe a slight edge for Reagan...
Perhaps Cunningham had muddied the waters by appoaring with Agee at quasi-social events (like the Republican National Convention) and by speaking of him in terms like, "He is the finest human being I've ever met." And Agee certainly made matter worse by trying to dispel the gossip in front of a public meeting of 600 employees. Both Agee and Cunningham have acknowledged their relationship as mentor and protege. In business, that type of relationship is not only customary, but often promoted at business schools as the key to success. And women, precisely because they have not yet been...
Some of Schmidt's colleagues were disappointed that the S.P.D. had gained so little, an increase of only .3% in the popular vote, to 42.9%. In fact, Schmidt had done little to dispel the impression that he never wanted his own party to win an absolute majority, lest its obstreperous left wing get out of control...
Putting a stop to that speculation clearly required more than a hotline phone call. Thus Agee last week summoned a meeting of company staff to dispel the rumors that his new vice president had become a most favored employee. "I know it has been buzzing around that Mary Cunningham's rise in this company is very unusual and that it has something to do with a personal relationship we have," he said. "It is true that we are very close friends. But that has nothing to do with the way that I and others in this company evaluate...