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...learned in Vietnam but rarely about what he did there. The story of how he saved Green Beret Jim Rassmann from the Bay Hap River under fire in 1969 would never have been told if Rassmann hadn't offered to tell it--dramatically, on the eve of the Iowa caucuses. Years ago, three of the Vietnam combat veterans Kerry served with in the Senate--John McCain, Bob Kerrey and Max Cleland--told me something that Kerry had never even hinted at: that Kerry had come to their rescue on occasions when they had been publicly attacked. He organized...
...decision-making style. In this case, a humbling process. He was forced to fire his campaign manager, Jim Jordan. He was forced to abandon his campaign in New Hampshire, where Howard Dean was clobbering him in the polls, and concentrate his assets on the uninviting cornfields of Iowa. And, speaking of assets, he was forced to go into hock, despite his wife's millions, and mortgage his primary possession--his Boston town house--in order to pay for the campaign. "I knew...
...make tough decisions. Edwards depends on his good looks and smooth speaking for support; Bush sticks to his principles. I will always back a candidate who has true values and stands by them. That is why I will be voting for Bush again this November. Doug Le Mahieu Pella, Iowa, U.S. I am extremely disillusioned by American politics, but my hopes have been resuscitated by Kerry's choice of Edwards as the vice-presidential candidate. Although I believe his selection was made for many of the wrong reasons, a man of Edwards' character, decency and competence could provide strength...
...know what’s coming next, right?” Dean said to his audience Tuesday. “We’re gonna win in Michigan, we’re gonna win in Iowa...
Dean began his half-hour speech—the first of the afternoon’s agenda, which lasted over three hours—by mocking his concession address after the Iowa caucus earlier this year. After that enthusiastic January speech, in which Dean recited a list of states he vowed to visit and then let out a scream, the then-candidate slipped rapidly in the polls, leading many pundits to speculate that it had turned voters off to Dean...