Word: radisson
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...district election system, seemed to be taking an amazing of them to Hart's none and Jesse Jackson's four. The voting booths had closed in California, with its enticing of 306 delegates, but early exit polls indicated a tight race. Arriving at a party in St. Paul's Radisson Plaza Mondale reached out to his rivals and their backers. "I want your support," he said, "and I intend to earn it." After delivering a Satchel Paige warning to Ronald Reagan, "Don't look back, somebody's gaining on you," the contented Mondale ordered a batch of cheeseburgers, celebrated with...
...reporters, cameramen and his aides counted off the seconds ("nine, eight, seven"), Mondale strode to the microphones in the Radisson Plaza at 11:59 a.m. on the dot and declared, "Today, I am pleased to claim victory I am the nominee. I've got the votes." He cited a precise number of delegates behind him: 2,008. Mondale pledged to work for "a unified convention," saying that he would make personal appeals to both Hart and Jackson to join him in that effort. He conceded under questioning that the friction among the candidates had been great, but he tried...