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Mondale was infuriated. "O.K., we're going to let him have it," he snapped to aides. A campaign staffer appeared on the Mondale plane with two briefcases stuffed with photocopies of old Congressional Records supposedly documenting Hart's inconsistencies. They show, for instance, that three weeks before last October's bombing of the U.S. Marine headquarters in Beirut, when Hart claims he was calling for an American withdrawal from Lebanon, he actually voted to extend their mission for another six months. By feeding these examples to the press, Mondale aides hope to depict Hart as a feckless...
...crowd laughed and wept while a rockabilly band played in a Manchester restaurant. Months earlier, when victory seemed unlikely, the campaign had rented a banquet room that could be partitioned in case the crowd was small. But 500 people, a fifth of them journalists, jammed it beyond capacity. Hart staffers chatted over the din on newly acquired walkie-talkies, the first sign that the campaign had moved upscale. "I guess we're for real now, huh?" said a staffer, clutching his walkie-talkie...
Caddell, says one Hart staffer, "helped Gary sharpen the contrast between himself and Mondale." Says Caddell...
...woodshed for revealing doubts about Reaganomics in the Atlantic Monthly in 1981 has the Administration been so embarrassed, and harassed, by one of its economic gurus. The President's aides accuse the economist of being disloyal and giving ammunition to the opposition during an election campaign. Says one staffer: "He's made the CEA a four-letter word around here." On several occasions, the White House has censored advance texts of Feldstein's speeches and ordered him to cancel television interviews. The President has become so annoyed that he never consults Feldstein...
...unions has given him an unfair advantage in the race, allowing him to exceed the limits on state campaign spending set by the Federal Election Commission (FEC). "Not only can he exploit union mail and union workers without having this spending registered with FEC," Woodward Wilson, a top McGovern staffer, says...