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...Still, Hart could not resist some not-so-veiled echoes of his earlier complaints about Mondale. "We have failed when we became cautious and complacent," he said of his party. He criticized "the policies of the comfortable past that do not answer the challenges of tomorrow." His followers gave Hart a warm ovation, and some wept in the realization that his candidacy was over. Others in the hall felt he had been less than gracious in defeat...
...actual roll call proved anticlimactic. The final tally, before Hart made the traditional motion for a unanimous decision, was Mondale, 2,191; Hart, 1,200; Jackson, 465. Mondale had fallen just nine votes shy of the 2,200 targeted by his staff and was a comfortable 224 votes above a majority...
...Colorado Senator Gary Hart descended from the podium and plunged into the crowd after his Wednesday-night speech, the hopeful strains of Chariots of Fire washed over Moscone Center. The next night Democratic Presidential Nominee Walter Mondale, battle-scarred from his primary brawls, strode triumphantly to the platform and raised his arms like a prizefighter. The song: Theme from Rocky...
...Democrats may have talked about unity, but it was San Francisco's 50-piece Dick Crest Orchestra that provided the true harmony. Candidates could choose the music they wanted to accompany their moment at the podium from a repertoire of about 500 songs. Despite the extensive selection, Hart used recorded music. When Mondale requested Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture, the band had to send out hastily for sheet music. Did the dearth of Sousa marches and the absence of brass bands offend convention regulars? Apparently not. "I like variation," said San Franciscan Paul Maag, who attended his first Democratic...
...Neill, or by Congressman Morris Udall, who controversially urged the party to reconcile itself with former President Jimmy Carter. ABC, misled about what time Jesse Jackson would speak, cut away from Tuesday evening's session to broadcast 24 minutes of a rerun of the thriller series Hart to Hart; it returned to the convention without finishing the story (not to worry, the Harts trapped the would-be assassin, as rival NBC mockingly informed viewers two nights later). The truncated schedule left scarcely any time for the pretaped background on personalities and issues, profiles of delegates or enterprising features that...