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...Administration. Kissinger feared that détente, if oversold, might undercut support for defense. He oversold it nonetheless, but the result was more the undercutting of detente itself. Jimmy Carter's National Security Adviser, Zbigniew Brzezinski, noted in his journal in 1978 that he and Secretary of Defense Harold Brown "both worried that SALT will be used to generate such euphoria about American-Soviet relations that it will be difficult to face realistically either the Soviet military or the Soviet regional challenge...
Mondale apparently still has trouble hanging tough with decisions once he makes them. Last month he volunteered to campaign for black Candidate Harold Washington in Chicago's hostile mayoralty battle. He was asked to accompany Washington on a visit to a white neighborhood and quickly decided it was a bad idea. When Washington brusquely pressured him, Mondale changed his mind. But the street filled with jeering whites, and suddenly it was necessary for the two men to skip out to avoid an ugly scene...
...They're going to burn the city down," he said. "But I would rather have to protect my home from the riots than vote for a man like [Black Democrat Harold] Washington...
Inside the convention hall, by 1:30 Wednesday morning, 15,000 supporters chanted "We Want Harold." Washington workers seemed awed by the emotions and expectations their campaign had tapped...
Some politicians, notably the British, cultivate an amiable relationship with hecklers. A man would shout "Rubbish!" during one of former Prime Minister Harold Wilson's stump speeches, and Wilson would imperturbably answer, "Sir, we will get to your area of special interest in just a moment." Other politicians have got down to the darker possibilities. Once in 1921, Adolf Hitler led a gang of Brownshirts into a meeting that was to be addressed by a Bavarian federalist named Ballerstedt. "We got what we wanted," Hitler said. "Ballerstedt did not speak." Hitler explained, "The National Socialist Movement will...