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...were arguing which speech was the best in their memory: Jackson's stem-winder or the stirring keynote by New York Governor Mario Cuomo. Party-splitting brawls were avoided, and unity was pledged by many orators, some of whom sounded as if they meant it. Colorado Senator Gary Hart promised full support of Mondale, who defeated him in a grueling and bitter primary campaign, and Jackson, after losing a string of floor fights over platform planks, made a point of apologizing to any fellow Democrats who might have been offended by his preconvention stridency. More important, he appealed penitently...
Mondale's two opponents, Jackson and Gary Hart, saw the dissension over Lance as a last chance to pry away Mondale delegates and block a first-ballot victory. Hart's aides happily spread the word that some 50 delegates who had been unpledged or in Mondale's camp had expressed interest in voting for Hart out of disgust over the Lance affair. Mondale's retreat, however, took much of the steam out of the fledgling revolt...
...While Hart wanted to block Mondale from a first-ballot win, he had been boxed in. Mondale strategists had reluctantly agreed not to resist Hart's one floor motion, which sought to ban the use of U.S. troops, particularly in the Persian Gulf, until after all negotiations had failed and only if U.S. security was at stake. In return, Hart instructed his delegates to vote against the Jackson dual-primary plank. In an earlier unifying move, Mondale had agreed to let Hart address the convention on Wednesday night, right before the nomination balloting was scheduled to begin...
...Wednesday-night balloting approached, only one substantive question remained: What kind of message would Hart deliver in his prime-time convention swan song? As it turned out, Hart paid obeisance to Mondale without explicitly abandoning his forlorn quest for the nomination. He praised his opponent's "unsurpassed grit, perseverance and determination." He told the loudly applauding delegates that whatever their nomination choice, he would "devote every waking hour and every ounce of energy to the defeat of Ronald Reagan." And he added a nice line: "This is one Hart you will not leave in San Francisco...
...credit, though, Husker Du doesn't seem to give up hope. In "Somewhere," Hart keeps up his "search for truth" even though he only finds lies, and in "The Tooth Fairy and the Princess," he sounds a simple message of don't-give-up-no-matter-what-happens...