Word: garden
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...such a spirit of amity, the 5,000 delegates and alternates may find their chief excitement outside the Garden, in the Big Apple that is playing host to its first Democratic Convention since the monstrous marathon of 1924, when John W. Davis won on the 103rd ballot...
...Democratic Party fairly shines with the inner peace of the born-again. The presidential candidate, Jimmy Carter, awaits only his official anointment next Wednesday, July 14, at Madison Square Garden. Not since 1964 have all factions of the party been so purposefully unified. The New York City convention promises all the controversy of a riverside baptism in south Georgia. But as Party Chairman Robert Strauss says serenely, "It can't get too dull for me. I've tried it the other way, and I like this a lot better...
Barring the wildly unforeseen, there will be none of that at the Garden. The chief suspense is now focused on Carter's choice for his running mate (see story page 12). Says Political Analyst Ben Wattenberg: "The war's over...
...Democratic Convention might get into so much trouble that we'd turn Republican. Well, it just isn't like that. Every day of the convention the delegates and alternates-more than 5,000 of us-will be taken in buses from our hotels to Madison Square Garden. Then, after the session is over late at night, we will be bused back again. I sure don't mind that kind of busing-I guess...
...Madison Square, you see police everywhere, and some you don't see. Before he was indicted for selling a judgeship and tampering with evidence, Pat Cunningham, who was the New York State Democratic chairman, told people: "When you come out of the Garden at night, you will see some very strange people on the street. But don't worry. You'll be perfectly safe. Two out of three of them will be police undercover men." Assistant Chief Inspector Daniel Courtenay, a burly man who wears a gun in an ankle holster like Popeye Doyle, is in charge...