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...Nunn was just back from a holiday in Switzerland, where he had digested a sheaf of memos explaining how he could win the Democratic nomination. But doubts about shouldering a presidential campaign on top of his Senate duties plagued him. There were moments when he thought he would make the plunge, but he woke in the middle of one night last week convinced that he should not. So Thursday morning, he activated what he called Operation Red Light -- the distribution of a no-go statement. His wife Colleen phoned his mother Elizabeth in Perry, Ga., with word of the verdict...
...When Nunn told reporters the "window and the door are closed" for him, he noted there was still an opening for another entry. Former Virginia Governor Chuck Robb was afraid Nunn would name him as a replacement. "If you do," Robb jokingly warned Nunn on the phone, "our long friendship is over." Nunn did, and also mentioned New York Governor Mario Cuomo and New Jersey Senator Bill Bradley...
Actually, Nunn was calling the roll of his more prominent fellow refuseniks. Not running for President has become the rage this year, quite a paradox considering the opportunities. Rarely has the gold ring seemed to be so reachable. With the incumbent retiring and neither party boasting an automatic heir, just about any credible politician could board the presidential carousel. Many have, along with some less credible ones, 14 all told at last count. Yet the number who decline to whirl has grown just as startlingly...
Laxalt, like Nunn, seems to lack the gene that ignites the requisite fire in the belly. He got into the race reluctantly, never having admired George Bush much and believing that true-blue Reaganauts would rally to him rather than to Jack Kemp. Instead, he found only a trickle of supporters and contributors -- and realized he is a reluctant presser of flesh...
When he returns to Washington this week, Nunn will have had two weeks in Europe to weigh the appeal of a race for the White House against his qualms about disrupting his family and shortchanging his Senate duties. He will not have long to signal his intentions: beyond the end of September, a late-from- the-gate candidacy could be almost impossible. Now Nunn must decide whether he wants to remain as the perfect non-candidate or become another presidential contender who will inevitably lose some of his luster in the rough-and-tumble of a difficult campaign...