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...every victory, there are seeds of defeat," Walter Mondale said in his concession speech. "In every defeat, there are seeds of victory," Amidst the grandeur of Ronald Reagan's stunning triumph, these words sounded a hollow clang...
Consider the irony today. Walter Mondale spent the first weeks of his fall campaign ridiculing Ronald Reagan as a Hollywood President-hollow fellow prancing around on a stage mouthing lines written by others and with only a vague idea of what was going on in the alley behind the theater. When television brought the two together, Mondale unabashedly climbed right up on the stage, put on makeup and devoted his energies to modulating his voice, making eye contact with the camera and using the right body language. His principal purpose was not to explain himself but to confuse, anger...
...deeply skeptical when George Bush pounds his first on the podium and says the Administration won't stop until the recovery reaches every single American. In his passionate defense of the Reagan record, Bush rang out on Thursday night, but he rang hollow...
...must be said that people like Iacocca add nerve to circumstances, and that it helps to work in a country where individuals have room to stretch. But standing alone often means mere hollow defiance...
...slaggardly approach-fully shared by the Soviets-toward making do with its adversary. Reagan mouthed all the right words in his peacenik-comelately rounting before the U.N. General Assembly, but to those who have been watching with some discrination the foreign policy deeds of his Administration, they rang hollow. A brief capsule of this history is highly instructive...