Word: fitness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...results, he grew restless. Spurred on by White House Chief of Staff Hamilton Jordan and Confidant Charles Kirbo, Carter again asked Strauss to take charge of his re-election effort. This tune the former Democratic Party chairman agreed, but demanded the freedom to run the campaign as he saw fit. Carter's reply, says Strauss, was "to sign over a power of attorney. He told me to go into business and just get him re-elected...
...abruptly quit a $650,000-a-year job as group executive for cars and trucks in 1973. DeLorean, now 54, had a good shot at the GM presidency. But apparently his fast life, long hair and penchant for marrying young women (thrice) and divorcing them (twice) did not fit the GM mold...
Appealing personally to voters will require more than a conscious decision, however. Strong candidates must be found, personalities voters can develop a fondness for. Sullivan may fit that bill, as may School Committee member Alice Wolf, who piled up city-wide support and a record number of votes in her school board bid. If a strong attachment, personal perhaps, to one candidate can be combined with a weaker intellectual support for other progressives, the CCA may have found a new tactic...
Though they played fit, Keller-Sarmiento and Mogollon couldn't recapture the magic touch they had developed before getting hurt they played well, but occasionally seemed gun-shy as they made on move too many in attempts to set up the perfect opportunity...
First, the government had claimed that Park had been killed "accidentally" when Kim Jae Kyu fired several shots at Cha in a fit of anger. Two days later, the government tacitly admitted the absurdity of that version by providing a second "official" account of the killing. According to this story, Kim and several of his KCIA agents had conspired to kill both Cha and the President because Kim had fallen out of favor with Park and feared that he was going to lose his job. That account seemed more plausible, as far as it went...