Word: jessee
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Jesse Jackson goes to Syria, on a wing and a prayer
THE REV. JESSE JACKSON'S successful rescue effort of Lt. Robert O. Goodman Jr. was a well-calculated political risk that proved to be a most telling comment on Jackson's Democratic candidacy. Jackson's previously voiced dissatisfaction with the Democratic Party should be recognized as only a minor facet...
But the rescue of Goodman is different from past cases, because it was engineered on a higher level of political expertise. Jackson can play up the risk of his mission (though there wasn't any politically for him) and Americans will agree with him when he says it was "the...
The question is whether Jackson will end one campaign and begin another. He has been running at a ragged pace to keep the yet-to-be established office known as the Leader of Blacks. He has successfully launced the largest voter registration movement in the country's history. Can he...
The national Presidential campaign is heating up. Taking their cue from Jesse Jackson and Gary Hart, Reubin Askew and John Glenn team up for an evening on national TV, as do Alan Cranston and George McGovern. Askew is the big loser in this strategy, since a hefty proportion of viewers...