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Bloomington, Minn...
...want to remember with him." Furthermore, as Britain's weekly Economist noted, "Republicans have no hangups about patriotism." The conservative President in particular has always been fluent and profuse with the imagery and language of conventional, Decoration Day patriotism. Says Frank Quam, a farm-management teacher in Stewartville, Minn.: "Reagan is of that nature, the flag waving, and people like that." The Democrats, for their part, have a very tricky path to navigate. In a holdover from the supercharged politics of the Viet Nam War, many Democrats have been ill at ease with flag waving and the military trappings...
Mondale had decided to confront Reagan's blend of politics and religion after becoming angered by the Laxalt letter and the partisan appeal to religious value that he saw as he watched the Republican Convention on television from his home in North Oaks, Minn. He asked about two dozen scholars and theologians to contribute ideas for a speech on the subject, and he conferred by telephone with New York Governor Mario Cuomo, a Roman Catholic who has done much soul searching on church-state issues. In daily sessions with Chief Speechwriter Martin Kaplan, Mondale reviewed ten drafts before...
...presidential ticket languished ten to 15 points behind the Republicans in the polls. Geraldine Ferraro parried reporters' persistent badgering about her finances, Jesse Jackson sulked and demanded more respect, and Walter Mondale for the most part remained holed up in his suburban bunker in North Oaks, Minn. This week the Democrats will try to shake off the ennui, as Mondale and Ferraro take off together on a five-city, four-day campaign swing, the first leg in a long and uphill march toward Election...
...Sears could not sell anything. He even set up a banking department with savings and checking services in 1899 that paid 5% interest on deposits, then folded the operation in 1903. But that was later. In 1886, then a restless 23-year-old railroad-station agent in North Redwood, Minn., Sears bought a consignment of gold-filled pocket watches that had been rejected by a local jeweler, resold them to other station agents at a $2 profit apiece and founded the R.W. Sears Watch Co. A year later he added a watch repairman, Alvah C. Roebuck, to his staff...