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...most vitally interested viewers of the televised debate, not surprisingly, came to quite different conclusions about the outcome. President Ford phoned Dole to say "You were superb. You were confident. You hit hard but hit fairly." Jimmy Carter told Mondale: "Fritz, you did great, man ... You didn't get small, you didn't get mean, you didn't get twisted in your approach...
Jimmy Carter's troubleshooter, the wise and watchful country lawyer Charles Kirbo, sat motionless and listened. He had traveled from Atlanta to Washington to gather complaints and advice about the stalled campaign. There, in Scoop Jackson's office, he went before a dozen Senators-veterans like Fritz Rollings of South Carolina and Abe Ribicoff of Connecticut, and newcomers like Colorado's Gary Hart and Florida's Richard Stone. One of them thought that the gray and silent Kirbo looked like a possum, unmoving and wary. He had brought with him top Carter agents, Landon Butler...
...reform that would lower taxes for poor and middle-income people and raise them for the well-to-do. The net result would be to raise the same amount of revenue but with a different tax structure. Carter has not specified whose taxes would be raised, but Running Mate Fritz Mondale said that the basis of Carter's tax policy would be to close the loopholes that aid people with annual incomes of $50,000 or more...
Standing in a nearby queue, carrying no fewer than 26 books and sweating profusely was Fritz Engebretsen...
...yellow-dog democracy," in which, or so it was said, Southerners would vote for a yellow dog if it were nominated by the Democratic Party. By the late 1950s, efforts by Democratic Southern Governors attracting Northern industries caused something of a political backlash. Recalls South Carolina's Fritz Rollings of his term (1959-63) as Governor: "After four years I had filled up the state with industry. Then I looked around and they were all Republicans. When you bring in GE and Westinghouse, you get the jobs, but then you see that politics follows the jobs...