Word: jessee
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Yet somehow the preconvention period has turned into a time of pressure and worry in the Mondale camp. There is pressure from feminists to choose a woman as his vice-presidential candidate, which threatens to put him in a damned-if-he-does-and-damned-if-he-doesn't dilemma...
The hoopla will be a façade. Even if Walter Mondale manages to smooth over his rifts with Jesse Jackson and the feisty women's movement, even if he somehow upsets Ronald Reagan in the fall, deep divisions will remain within the party. The Democrats are groping for...
The key to victory, Mondale's advisers believe, lies largely in energizing the party's traditional base: the poor, the elderly, union members, minorities. The Mondale camp points to the 11 million black and Hispanic voters and the millions more who are not registered. Blacks have traditionally been...
The Washington Monument stood white above the deep summer green of the trees. Reagan squinted and smiled and soothed. "Scoop believed in arms control, but he refused to support any initiative that would not ensure the survival of the West." Remember that, fellow citizens, when you hear cries from the...
The allergy to elementary distinctions is not confined to child educators and their admirers. It also turns up on the political front, even among presidential candidates. For example, when Louis Farrakhan publicly threatened the life of the Washington Post reporter who had disclosed Jesse Jackson's "Hymie" slur, Jackson...