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...Carter aide came into the room to say there was a move on the convention podium to make the rules vote unanimous. "No, no, tell them to leave it alone!" decided Jordan. Like Strauss, he was anxious not to bruise Kennedy further. A few minutes later the report of Kennedy's withdrawal came over the TV sets, and the Carter men let out another roar. The size of their victory, 545.8 votes, clearly lifted the President's aides. From his mountaintop at Camp David, the President had a different view. He told Strauss later in the evening that...
...skepticism about Kennedy was even more evident the next morning when the President's closest advisers-Charlie Kirbo, Stu Eizenstat, Jordan and Powell -gathered at 9 o'clock in Strauss's three-room hotel suite. Strauss informed them that he had called Kennedy early that morning only to be told the Senator was too busy to talk about their differences on the platform. Jordan had a similar story to report. His counterpart on the Kennedy side, Paul Kirk, had not returned his calls either. "They're not going to play ball," said Strauss. The group spent...
Jordan telephoned Camp David to explain their fears. "Mr. President," Jordan began, "we need to know how much you'll give up on the platform." Carter's answer: yield a little but absolutely not on wage and price controls. Then Strauss took the phone. "We're going to take a pasting today, Mr. President," he said, reporting that Kennedy seemed to be shutting them off. "He's going to be very tough. Get ready for it." Carter reminded Strauss that he had picked that up in Kennedy's voice the previous evening...
...vests, to collect around him. Standing on a wooden box, he exhorted the group. "The worst thing in the world for President Carter is to be just sitting here while this platform is rewritten," he said. "We've got to fight every one of these economic reports." Then Strauss climbed up and gave another push. "The country is not with Senator Kennedy on these issues," he said. "Remind these delegates about the fight against inflation." But like Strauss and Jordan, Delegate Chief Tom Donilon, standing at the edge of the group, knew the fight was already lost. "These votes...
...They were not expecting much from the speech itself; during the campaign they had become used to watching him stumble at big moments. But this was not the usual bellowing Kennedy. Right from the start the speech had a different ring. Immediately, the men in the trailer turned anxious. Strauss and Jordan were silent, holding advance copies of the speech in their hands, following the words closely. Black Leader Jesse Jackson squeezed into the corner of the trailer and stared hard at the screen. "What do you think, Jesse?" Jordan said, looking over at him. Jackson never took his eyes...