Word: goodman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...party's presidential nomination by mid-March. But when he stepped to the microphone in Washington, Mondale joined a media blitz for another candidate. "All of us are proud of the Rev. Jackson's success," Mondale began. "He deserves our thanks on this happy day for Lieut. Goodman, his family and our country...
...Sergio Bendixen, Alan Cranston's campaign manager. Maxine Isaacs, Mondale's press secretary, said of the former Vice President's staff, "If we were younger and less experienced, we'd be depressed." With one stroke, Jackson, by successfully gaining the release of Navy Flyer Robert Goodman, gave his campaign a credibility that it had sorely lacked. Said Andrew Young, Atlanta's black mayor: "When Jesse says something visionary now, people won't take it as ridiculous...
...President and Jackson for Vice President. Jackson, naturally, took a more upbeat view. "God will provide," he said. "Who could have ever imagined that there would be a black pilot from Portsmouth, N.H., being held in a jail in Damascus?" His plans to hold a political rally with Goodman in Portsmouth on Saturday were nixed by the Navy, which said its regulations forbid political appearances by servicemen...
...Iowa caucus on Feb. 20, Jackson's Syrian success will probably not gain him much. Said Iowa Democratic Committee Chairman David Nagle: "Iowa is an organization state, and Jackson doesn't have an organization here." As for New Hampshire, any attempt to exploit Goodman's ties to the state cannot be built on race, since its black population is less than .5%. Elsewhere, in states where Jewish votes and fund raising are influential in Democratic politics, Jackson has probably slipped rather than gained, since his relationship with Syrian President Hafez Assad is a source of resentment...
However envious the other Democratic candidates might be of Jackson's unexpected dash into the national spot light, all may have benefited indirectly from his heroics. He not only made their expected November foe, Ronald Reagan, look ineffectual for not gaining Goodman's release earlier, but brought new stirrings of excitement to a Democratic race that had been drifting toward tedium almost before it began. For the moment, anyway, Jesse Jackson was the life of the party...