Word: mate
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...poems in the book confirm the popularized notions of Islamic fatalism. "The fates have ways unaltering, and men's aims are beyond their impotent reach," writes Gibran. Mikhail Nuaymah declares: "Fate is my ally and destiny my travelling mate." Shukri takes resignation furthest: "Life is but a continual dying/Goodness and pleasures are but borrowed...
Many conservative and moderate Democrats were appalled when, after the national convention, Carter made bald appeals to some of the elements of the old coalition that seemed cool to his candidacy. His choice of Walter Mondale as a running mate was part of that plan. Norbert Dreiling, former Kansas Democratic state chairman, felt that Carter had "blown" the campaign by spending too much time "trying to woo back the liberal wing of the party." Pollster Lou Harris also believed that Carter had taken a large risk by retreating from his independent stance, his widely perceived conservatism, and going after...
...Mayor Richard Daley, AFL-CIO President George Meany, and others who had seen Carter as an upstart and an outsider, rushed to back him. Last aboard the bandwagon were the liberals. Carter won them over by choosing Minnesota's Senator Walter (Fritz) Mondale as his running mate and by delivering an acceptance speech that amounted to a populist vision of social reform. After the convention, with some polls giving him a lopsided 62%-to-29% lead over Ford, Carter seemed supremely confident of victory. During those precious summer days at home in Plains, he spent more time working...
After the results were in, some political analysts went so far as to speculate that Fritz Mondale had been the difference between victory and defeat for the Carter ticket. "The best decision that Jimmy made about the whole campaign was picking Fritz Mondale as his running mate," said Democratic National Chairman Robert Strauss. Carter Adviser Hamilton Jordan told TIME Correspondent John Stacks that Mondale had indeed proved valuable, particularly after his strong showing in the precedent-setting vice-presidential debate with Republican Robert Dole. Said Jordan of the debate: "It gave us two or three extra points, a huge impact...
VICE PRESIDENTS. Convinced that Walter Mondale has more presidential stature than Robert Dole, Carter cited his running mate as the kind of person he would bring into Government if he wins. Carter said he was now more sure than ever that Mondale was "the best person qualified to be President if something should happen to me," and declared he had never heard Ford make a similar claim about Robert Dole. Ford defended Dole, who was in the audience with his wife. But, while he said Dole was "fully qualified" to be President, he did not claim that his running mate...