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...plug on an incipient favorite-son presidential candidacy, Friedman and his Democratic machine colleagues across New York State were finally liberated to chart their own course. Five hours later a number of them, including Friedman, had thrown their support to Bill Clinton. By week's end even Representative Tom Manton, the Democratic leader of Cuomo's home county, Queens, was on board with the Arkansas Governor...
...brokered the endorsements was Harold Ickes Jr., a longtime liberal activist who has supported every far-left Democratic presidential candidate from Eugene McCarthy to Jesse Jackson. "When you consider Harold's politics and then the fact that Manton supported Bush on the gag rule on abortion, you have to concede that a coalition is being built," says Sarah Kovner, another New York liberal activist in Clinton's corner...
...exactly is Clinton catching on across the Democrats' ideological spectrum? Why are the likes of Ickes and Manton and an increasing number of Democratic fat cats and trade-union leaders flocking to a centrist Southern Governor so soon after most of them swore they'd be long dead before either they or the country would again support another Deep South Democrat...
...over four years, a lot of money in 1965, Namath was the star who brought the old American Football League to Broadway. In 1979, O.J. Simpson drew $806,668 from the San Francisco 49ers, the richest annual salary in the sport until last week. According to Manton, Walker's deal is guaranteed by Generals Owner J. Walter Duncan "regardless of skill, injury or death" and consists of cash entirely. No more will Walker be gambling millions on hamstrings and knees. However, come the Olympic trials next year, when the sprinters are taking their marks, wherever Walker...
...doesn't take a Sherlock Holmes to figure out what Manton and Walker were after. They wanted money-lots of it-and they got it. Walker is now the highest paid football player in the world. The reports have varied, but the most reliable figures indicate that Walker signed a three-year contract for either $3.9 or $5 million...