Word: hagan
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Politicians predicted that the mission's failure would have disastrous consequences for Carter and the Democrats. Said Tim Hagan, Democratic chairman in the Cleveland area: "He's rolled the dice. Now he has to pull it off." But there was considerable debate over how much Carter would gain domestically from success. Such a triumph might temporarily strengthen his hand with the power barons in Washington and help him cope with a stubborn Congress, but political memories are short. Nor would success necessarily improve the President's public image for very long. Said New Hampshire Pollster Richard Bennett...
...Mayor Michael Bilandic by inviting him to fly aboard Air Force One to attend Pope Paul's funeral last August. The President will spend the night at Bilandic's home when he campaigns in Chicago in early November. But in Ohio Carter irritated Cuyahoga County Chairman Tim Hagan by inviting Cleveland Mayor Dennis Kucinich to the White House. The hotheaded young mayor has antagonized Hagan and other party leaders by refusing to endorse most of the local Democrats. Last week Hagan joined other Democrats at a Cleveland rally where the keynote speaker was Ted Kennedy. The gathering...
...President over what he considered broken campaign promises on national health insurance. At the same time, he was on television answering a lot of questions about the magazine articles in which his wife Joan admitted that she had long been an alcoholic. Politically, he seized every opportunity. After Timothy Hagan, 32, was elected chairman of Ohio's vote-heavy Cuyahoga County, Kennedy's staff immediately invited the new leader to stop by. When Hagan wondered if the Senator might possibly be keynote speaker at the state's largest political gathering in October, he was startled...
Written from New York City and London, the letters show that Wolfe wanted McCall's "honest opinion about what the people back home thought about his books," Linda Hagan said yesterday...
...People in Ashville didn't like what Wolfe revealed about them," Bill Hagan added. The letters show Wolfe feared that he was a failure...