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...Strauss and Jordan got on the phones immediately to key Carter delegations - Illinois, Ohio, the Southern states - outlining the new position, namely to yield on the planks on job subsidies and fighting unemployment. Some delegations, like Ohio, bitterly resented the decision. Several others called the trailer to object. "It's tough," said Strauss to Jordan. "A lot of these guys broke their backs for us." Finally the time had run out, the Kennedy fever on the floor was holding at a peak. Strauss and Jordan had no time to call the President to ask for directions; they...
...Strauss reached for the phone again and called O'Neill. "Tip, we're ready now," he said. "We're going to take one, and give them two and three." He repeated the instructions twice more in the din, and the loyal O'Neill had his orders. He quickly gaveled the decisions through on voice votes, obviously being guided not at all by the comparative volume of the ayes and nays. When O'Neill declared the President the victor on the plank on wage and price controls despite the fact that the Kennedy forces were almost...
...strained be havior caused among Carter's crew a whole new surge of anger against him. Now Carter's managers knew there was no real reconciliation, if one had ever been possible. They could expect only token support in the fall. But the fight that Strauss and Jordan had waged from their trailer had shored up the candidacy of a President whose own party obviously had little heart...
Nonetheless, the Carter forces last week projected a surprising degree of optimism. Speaking to TIME editors, Campaign Chairman Robert Strauss boasted, "I have little doubt that the people will re-elect the President. I felt confident enough to make a couple of pretty good bets on it. And I bet with my head...
...hope of Strauss and his colleagues that Reagan can be overtaken is based in large part on their own experience in 1976 with the power of the incumbency. When Carter challenged President Gerald Ford, he led by 35 points in the polls. That lead dwindled through the fall until Carter managed to edge out Ford by only one point, and might have lost if the campaign had gone on another week or two. "The real crux of the problem is the nature of being a challenger," says Caddell...