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...spotlights picked him out first, a slim figure proceeding to the dais through a darkened Madison Square Garden. Jimmy Carter was about to give a speech crucial to his hopes for staying in the White House. Not since Harry Truman had a President received such a grudging, unenthusiastic nomination from a Democratic Convention?and Carter was starting from an even lower rating in the polls than Truman had carried into that campaign of 1948. The President had to set both a tone and a theme for his own uphill race, and he had to do it immediately...
...green-bannered forces of Jimmy Carter flexed more muscle and organized brilliantly to prevail in New York City's Madison Square Garden. But the blue standards of Edward Kennedy waved in defiance, then blazed across the floor in a bittersweet celebration of the vanquished Senator's finest hour?an impassioned call to the Democratic Party not to abandon its compassionate past. The masterly address set even some Carter delegates to weeping. In a convention devoid of suspense but filled with personal drama, the President won renomination yet lost much of the glory to the man he so handily defeated...
...that sour note ended the Democratic Convention that President Carter had hoped would give him a flying start in his attempt to come from behind to catch Ronald Reagan. The four days in Madison Square Garden hardly did that...
...President, whose campaign instincts are often underrated, was aiming not so much at the audience in Madison Square Garden as the one before the TV sets across America. He was not trying to stun or startle them with innovative programs but rather to reassure them with a sober assessment of his own actions...
After the speech, Madison Square Garden was alive with talk of whether Ted Kennedy would make o another run at the presidency. His supporters were convinced that he has learned Sand matured from the bruising 1980 fight and that he is the natural heir to the Democratic nomination...