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MINNESOTA'S MONDALE, 48. Cited by some Carter intimates as the most likely choice, the articulate Mondale is viewed as having the intellectual capacity to handle the presidency, if needed. He would strengthen Carter's fragile ties to labor and reassure the party's still doubting Northern liberals. But some of Carter's industrious workers consider Mondale, who gave up his own presidential campaign as too great an ordeal, a shade on the lazy side...
Sometimes we lolled on the sand in camp [at Lake Tahoe] and smoked pipes, and read some old well-worn novels. At night, by the campfire, we played euchre and seven-up to strengthen the mind?and played them with cards so greasy and defaced that only a whole summer's acquaintance with them could enable the student to tell the ace of clubs from the jack of diamonds...
...Kremlin dinner during which he delivered a speech in defense of dtente, Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev endorsed the Indian state of emergency ("Your government's actions against internal and external reaction met full understanding in the U.S.S.R.") and concluded: "May the tree of Soviet-Indian friendship strengthen and blossom." In reply, Mrs. Gandhi assured her hosts that Indo-Soviet cooperation was "a striking example of how two peoples with different political ideologies and socioeconomic structures can work together for mutual welfare and progress...
...Democrat but I voted for Gerald Ford in my state's primary. I would have preferred to vote for Udall-to strengthen responsible liberalism in the Democratic Party-but I could not stand by while Reagan drove the Republican Party further into simplistic conservatism. The threat of Reagan outweighed the promise of Udall...
...surging, and no one questions Ford's honesty and decency. Yet the White House appears rudderless. The Administration has come down on both sides of legislation to aid debt-ridden New York City, to permit a single picketing union to shut down an entire construction project, to strengthen antitrust laws, to reduce income taxes. When his since-departed campaign manager, Bo Callaway, greased the skids for Nelson Rockefeller's slide from the 1976 Ford ticket, the President's silence made him appear weak or devious...