Word: jessee
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When the Democrats were asked in the North Carolina debate what differences they had with the N.E.A., only Jesse Jackson gave the union a ringing endorsement. Most of the others favored some form of "accountability" for teachers, and some went further, backing the principle of merit pay. Said former Arizona...
None of them could have dreamed that Jesse Jackson, candidate for President of the U.S., would, 50 years later, set up his Iowa headquarters on that forgotten corner. What strange force brought a man of world renown, a fire- breathing latter-day populist, to that dot of earth, that little...
Then came Jesse and his crew of fresh-faced young men and women. They cleaned and brightened the dingy garage with their rainbow banners, moved in computers and charts and all the weird paraphernalia of political crusaders. They are there now plotting a takeover of the Government from that little...
Strange, wonderful system that somehow brushes the most humble. Does Jesse Jackson understand the deep farm problems, the complicated roots of small-town deprivation? His own background is so very distant. But he understands want and being left out. We will know before long whether that is enough to link...
Others were. The owlish Georgian had been viewed, especially by fellow Southerners who are helping to organize the region's Mega-Tuesday primary next March, as the Tory knight who could draw centrist and conservative Democrats back to the party. The two immediate beneficiaries: Tennessee Senator Albert Gore, who despite...