Word: lucey
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...getting into a critical phase of the campaign," he says. He tried his best to perk up his showing by performing the tasks that party candidates accomplish at conventions: choosing a running mate and issuing a platform. His vice presidential selection, Democrat Patrick J. Lucey, former Governor of Wisconsin (see box), is hardly likely to give Anderson a major boost. Lucey is a skilled campaign planner and organizer, and has close ties to labor leaders, who have been very suspicious of Ander son. Still, Lucey has neither a widely recognized name nor a national constituency...
When he was ten years old, he got into a schoolyard fight because he was rooting for Al Smith over Herbert Hoover for the presidency. Ever since, Patrick Lucey, 62, has been a stalwart of the Democratic Party, a key reason why Independent John Anderson chose him last week as his vice-presidential running mate...
...Most of Lucey's life has been devoted to organizing today's strong Wisconsin Democratic Party. A prosperous real estate developer, he became Lieutenant Governor in 1965 and won the governorship in 1970 and 1974. A popular if not charismatic figure, he fought for environmental measures and earned the respect of businessmen by cutting taxes to encourage manufacturing in Wisconsin...
...Lucey quit his office to accept Jimmy Carter's appointment as Ambassador to Mexico. There he ran into problems almost immediately. Embassy staffers and members of the large colony of American businessmen, for example, were displeased that he spoke no Spanish and had no diplomatic experience. The White House, moreover, felt he had confused the delicate negotiations for the importing of Mexican natural gas in September 1979. Just a month later, Lucey resigned as envoy and became deputy director of Edward Kennedy's campaign against Carter...
...Lucey's pedigree as a Kennedyite is two decades old. He threw his support behind John F. Kennedy in the key 1960 Wisconsin primary fight to defeat Hubert Humphrey. Eight years later, Lucey backed Robert Kennedy. At last month's Democratic Convention, as Carter beat Kennedy, Lucey stalked from the hall in righteous anger...