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...despite the sore throat that also made his acceptance speech sound a bit scratchy. Hamilton Jordan, deputy chairman of Carter's re-election committee, was visibly more confident, poised and worldly than at a similar lunch in the same room four years ago. Carter Re-Election Chairman Robert Strauss was a lively storyteller despite the early hour and an almost around-the-clock schedule. White House Pollster Patrick Caddell still talked revealingly about what the numbers told of Carter-good and bad. Arizona Congressman Morris
...must not let yourself be overwhelmed by the guest, who after all is trying to get across a point of view by what he or she is telling you." As Robert Strauss put it over his French toast, "I say what's on my mind, but I sometimes don't say everything that's on my mind. Sometimes I talk too much, but it's very rare that I say too much." Strauss's claim notwithstanding, the guests' remarks helped shape and illuminate this week's stories on the convention. Similar opportunities...
Pennsylvania's vote sealed Kennedy's fate. Its 83 votes against his position provided the winning majority. On the previous weekend, Carter Campaign Manager Robert Strauss had been worried enough about Pennsylvania to instruct a Carter whip working the delegation: "Tell them we'll yank them off the damned convention floor if they don't want to vote with us. Whip, whip, whip them into shape!" The final tally was 1,936.4 to 1,390.6 in favor of Carter's position on the rule?an unexpectedly comfortable margin of 545.8 votes...
...experiences writing this week's story, Sidey says: "The work was shoe leather and phone. A call to Bob Strauss [chairman of the Carter-Mondale campaign] is always like plugging into General Headquarters, U.S.A. He has always just come away from a meeting with the President or John Connally or God. The story also took some long, tough hours of reading and thinking. But for the most part it was a lovely journey with old and new friends." The story includes, by the way, some fishing news...
...they wished. But as his Billy troubles grew and Kennedy stepped up his battle against the rule ("What has the President really got to fear?" Kennedy asked), Carter dug in harder, telling aides that he would look weak if he appeared to yield under pressure. Instead, Carter and Strauss preferred to gamble on a quick convention victory, seeking to set the rules debate for the opening day, and, if the President won, guaranteeing his nomination then and there. But this tactic also risks an early fight that Carter could conceivably lose, displaying major differences under the white heat of television...