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Unsurprisingly, there were no Mondale coattails. Although the Minnesotan carried Manhattan in New York City with about 65% of the vote, Republican William Green, 55, a three-term incumbent, still managed to win in the so-called Silk Stocking District. Green and his challenger, Democrat Andrew Stein, 39, the Manhattan borough president, spent a total of $1,784,775, making theirs the costliest House race in the nation...
Hardly anyone interviewed said they expected the Minnesotan to win, but they said they were extremely surprised by the lopsided margin for President Reagan. "I expected Massachusetts and Boston to vote the way they did, but I was disappointed at the rest of the country," said Patricia Garrety, an Allston resident...
WALTER MONDALE would provide a salutary antidote to the ideology-in-a-vacuum which has characterized Reagan's foreign policy. No one need challenge this old Minnesotan's commitment to a sound defense, which would hardly be emasculated by the Defense Department cuts he proposes. Mondale wants only to scrap the weapons system-like the MN missile-which have no value either strategically or as bargaining chips in arms negotiations with the Soviets. More important, though, Mondale's vigorous scrutiny of the Pentagon budget would help bring an end to the insidious culture of procurement that has flourished under...
...Minnesotan was interested enough in Feinstein to dispatch Johnson to San Francisco on July 5. He had a 60-minute talk with Feinstein, probing for anything in her medical history or finances?or those of her husband Richard Blum, a wealthy investor?that might prove troublesome if she were selected. On the following Sunday, the New York Times carried a report, apparently inspired by a Mondale aide who favored Feinstein, that Mondale had been disappointed in Ferraro when the two had talked. Mondale called Ferraro the next day to tell her that the story was untrue. Ferraro did not seem...
Mondale's unity drive fared much better with former pri mary foe George McGovern, who not only endorsed him but predicted that the Minnesotan might turn out to be "the best President since Franklin Roosevelt." That is the kind of talk Mondale would like to hear from all of his party's leaders...