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WHEN WALTER F. Mondale finally picks his running mate, one hopes this week, he will bring to a merciful close one of the saddest charades in recent political memory. Never before has a politician on the brink of such high office debased himself more before his supporters...
...Jesse Jackson. But the worries of the presumptive nominee are hardly over. Hart still plans to continue his own candidacy, a muted challenge that could force Mondale to offer him the second spot on the ticket. At the same time, the chorus urging Mondale to select a woman running mate has unexpectedly swelled; what seemed a few weeks ago a daring option for Mondale now threatens to foreclose any other option...
...down time" for Walter Mondale, a chance to recover from one ordeal on the stump and gird for the next. With the Democratic nomination apparently in hand, Mondale loafed about his woodsy $200,000 house in North Oaks, Minn., swatted a tennis ball and pondered his choice of running mate. His aides, however, spent much of last week fretting about his unruly rivals. Gary Hart would not quit. Jesse Jackson was making threatening sounds. The Mondale camp's worst fear was that the pair would form an alliance that could turn the Democratic Convention into a political brawl. Having...
This methodical catering to constituencies was going on as well at Mondale's home, in a suburb of St. Paul. The former Veep began his formal search for a running mate by interviewing a black, a Southerner and a woman: Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley, followed by Senator Lloyd Bentsen of Texas and San Francisco Mayor Dianne Feinstein. Although most observers said his selection was unlikely, Mayor Bradley, the son of a sharecropper, touched reporters by reminding them how remarkable it was that a presidential nominee would even consider a black running mate. A female running mate (more probably...
...Mondale, should be the presidential nominee. Hart no longer attacks Mondale personally. Indeed, his supporters are now trying to position their man as a vice-presidential candidate. In a speech at the National Press Club last week, Hart sounded like one, playing the traditional role of a feisty running mate by attacking the Reagan Administration's "routine contempt for facts and ethics...