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...whether he ought to join the ticket if asked. Advisers Patrick Caddell, Kathy Bushkin and John McEvoy contend that Hart's future would best be served by becoming Mondale's partner in their party's challenge to Ronald Reagan, even if the effort fails. Oliver Henkel, Frank Mankiewicz and Jack Quinn still foresee the possibility that a political disaster could cripple Mon dale before the convention...
Even though its impact was muted in the East, the California result gave Hart an important lift, at least delaying any concession that Mondale had the nomination wrapped up. Said Hart: "Welcome to overtime." He declared his campaign "must go forward, and we will." Oliver Henkel, Hart's campaign manager, insisted that "Mondale's claims of 2,008 delegates are bravado. He's still in the 1,800s by our best counts." David Mixner, a key Hart strategist in California, argued that even if Mondale winds up 200 votes over a majority by convention time, "it's a slim margin...
...parts. Says Hart: "I'm not sure if that would be a dream ticket." If he accepted the second spot, much of his essentially maverick appeal might be lost, since one of Hart's campaign premises is a rejection of back-room dealing. Campaign Manager Oliver Henkel, a friend for more than 20 years, thinks Hart is temperamentally unsuited for the job. "He'd be absolutely miserable," says Henkel. For his part, Hart insists, "I am not interested in being Vice President...
...chemical warfare would surely intensify during the six weeks between June 5 and the convention. "That's when the fun starts," says Hart Campaign Manager Oliver Henkel. A large pack of local officials and members of Congress known as superdelegates will be up for grabs. About 200 of these 568 superdelegates are not yet chosen, and an additional 150 are not yet committed to a candidate. The other group of free-floating convention voters, elected delegates not committed to Mondale, Hart or Jackson, might be persuaded to sit on their hands. Then what? "The erosion will be rapid...
...part of the blame on Mondale for the Soviet withdrawal from the Summer Olympics. "I'll be interested in just what his role was in the Olympic boycott in 1980, now that it's been thrown back in our face," coyly wonders Campaign Manager Oliver Henkel. Says another Hart aide: "I hope Mondale says again that he privately led the fight against it, especially since it was his idea." While aides unleash their volleys, Hart himself will press his "campaign of new ideas...