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...views on capitalism and abortion stir controversy
...convention: his move to oust Democratic National Committee Chairman Charles Manatt. Presidential nominees usually replace their party chairmen with their own people, but they generally wait until after the convention has ended. Even so, the firing of Manatt would probably not have caused much of a national stir had it not been for Mondale's choice of Bert Lance, President Carter's scandal-tainted Budget Director, to replace him. Whether they liked Manatt or not, and many did not, scores of delegates rushed to his defense. Willie Brown Jr., California's Democratic assembly speaker, sarcastically professed...
Just a few days earlier she could go practically anywhere without being recognized, much less causing a stir. But in San Francisco last week Geraldine Ferraro was a mobile media event, her every public move and utterance analyzed for substance and style. Citizens thronged around her, and politicians of every color and creed embraced her. Some women cried as they touched...
...presidential spot in 1960, he saw Johnson's 1964 invitation to join him on the ticket as his last hope. Humphrey wanted to be President so badly that he buried his aversion to the Viet Nam conflict. Johnson abused Humphrey shamelessly, sending him out to stir up support for the war and keeping him uninformed about matters of importance. For a politician, he was perhaps too loyal, too kind. "Wanting to be loved, he was unable to be cruel," says Solberg. "He could make neither his allies nor his adversaries fear that his anger would have long-term consequences...
...snickering through the loopholes. The potential idealists inhabit the middle between those two caricatures. They crave material wellbeing, certainly. But they also want to be, saying it plainly, active participants in the larger enterprise of their nation. They want to do some good, to make changes. The candidates who stir this energy will have discovered fire. Mondale and Ferraro may not be able to do that. But if they do, the results could be astonishing...