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...full hour before the Kennedy Foundation fund raiser was even scheduled to begin, a lone taxicab pulled up in front of the massive John F. Kennedy Library...
...only reluctantly agreed to retire at the end of June. It was too late. On April 29, 3 1/2 hours after the verdict in the King case was announced, Gates left his office at about 6:30 p.m. to drive 11 miles to attend a small political fund raiser in affluent Brentwood. The cause was dear to his heart: opposition to a Los Angeles ballot measure that would, at last, make the police chief more accountable to elected officials. Even though Gates claimed he was at the fund raiser for just five minutes (it was closer...
...remains mystifying is why more than 100 officers, seething with frustration, remained for about the next two hours at their fallback position 1 1/2 miles away, waiting for orders to move back in. The orders were finally issued. For much of this period, Gates was either at the fund raiser or in transit. "The command structure was not in place. They didn't keep in touch," said deputy fire chief Donald Anthony, who had 20 fire engines in place waiting for police escorts. To law-enforcement strategists like Beene, the long delay was fatal. "You think one hour...
...Connecticut following his stinging defeats in the Rust Belt. Tsongas publicly pledged to fight on, but his doubts were growing. That evening at his Victorian home in Lowell, Mass., he agonized about his future with his wife Niki; his campaign manager and best friend, Dennis Kanin; and fund raiser Nicholas Rizzo. Kanin told him he would need at least $1.5 million to be competitive in New York. The money wasn't there, and the campaign debt was approaching $500,000. At 9:30, Tsongas decided to withdraw. The group begged him to sleep on it. He did and told...
That prospect is excruciating for a party long cursed by fatally flawed standard bearers. "The idea that a misplaced love letter could keep us out of the White House for another four years makes me ill," says a Democratic fund raiser in Chicago. Clinton's defenders take comfort in the fact that their candidate has survived months of scrutiny by the press and voters. "He's got presidential stature, and he's convinced a lot of people that he can win," says Ed Scribner, president of the Metropolitan Detroit AFL-CIO. "When he started out, there were some problems with...