Word: junes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...June 9: As he waited for the five Democratic candidates, Paul Kirk mused that even the Pope has more divisions than the Democratic Party chairman. For weeks Kirk had been talking of leading a bandwagon of perhaps 400 super- delegates to the front runner. But after two days of working the phones, Kirk had only 208 commitments. If only Mike Dukakis had caught fire. Instead, he had staggered across the finish line more than 600 votes short of nomination...
...June 18: Al Gore had been preparing for this summit for months. Every phone call, every chance meeting in airports, had been designed to lay the groundwork. Now, as Gore sat across the table from Jackson in Carthage, Tenn., he sensed that the nomination was in his grasp. "Jesse, this is what you've been fighting for all your life," Gore began quietly. "Unlike any other black in history, you have been given the power to choose the next President...
...June 22: "Our topic tonight is Democratic gridlock and how to break it," Ted Koppel declared at the beginning of a special edition of Nightline. "With us are all five candidates...
...June 30: More than 200 delegates had chartered a special train to Albany to personally petition Mario Cuomo to save the party from chaos. Now they listened as Cuomo laboriously reviewed the Jesuitic logic that undergirded every statement he had ever made about running. "My resolve not to seek the presidency remains steadfast," Cuomo declared amid a chorus of groans and muttered imprecations. "But I have also always said that I do not have the vanity, I do not have the prideful stubbornness to turn my back on my party." As the applause died down, Cuomo hastened to make himself...
Bradley, who has been mentioned as a potential presidential candidate himself, promised to campaign for Dukakis both in New Jersey--which holds its primary on June 7--and around the nation...