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Says Ajemian: "People would invariably tell me, 'Fritz is a beautiful human being, but I really don't know if he's tough enough for that job.' " Ajemian's assessment of Mondale's strengths and weaknesses offers TIME'S readers an early opportunity to begin that essential citizen responsibility of making up their own minds...
...like Fritz Mondale. He was up in New York in his tuxedo the other day, picking up money from rich people, and he felt compelled to say, "I'm not going to base my campaign on how bad the economy is, because I want it to improve."Then he said "I mean that. I want the economy to improve." I think he said that one time too many...
...tempted to believe that the four conservative Southerners--Sen. Fritz Hollings (D.S.C), former Gov. Reubin Askew of Florida, probably Sen. Dale Bumpers (D-Ark.), and perhaps former National Party Chairman Robert Straus of Texas--have entered the fray partly out of the much heralded "turn to the right" the country experienced in 1980. Indeed, early press reports indicated that Sen. Hollings based the rationale for his campaign in part on those halcyonyon pre recession days of 1981, when Time referred to Reagan as a domestically able President," and a Democratic candidacy as a conservative alternative to Ronald Reagan seemed credible...
...state capitol in Des Moines, tried to weigh a bull by eye (he guessed 1,905 lbs., off by about 25 lbs.) and presented an award to Iowa's seedstock producer-of-the-year. "This is the first cattle show I've been to in months where Fritz Mondale and I have not been the main attractions," he joked. More seriously, he made the pledge against embargoes that Iowa voters love: "It's high time we stopped using food as a foreign policy weapon...
...tough," with its trading partners. "We've been running up the white flag," Mondale--no doubt eyeing the prospects of AFL-CIO endorsement before the Democratic primaries--has been proclaiming in union halls recently, "when we should be running up the American flag." With Senate tough guys John Glenn, Fritz Hollings, and Alan Crimson, he is backing the Domestic Content Bill--a disastrous projectionist measure design to shut foreign-made cars out of the American market...