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...Robert Drinan (D-Mass.), forced to give up his political career by a Vatican edict earlier this year, continued to stump for Frank as his successor, pointedly ignoring the Medeiros letter...
Some Canadians said they felt a little squeamish at the newspaper and television pictures of his occasionally bloody stump and his face contorted in pain. Still, editorialists applauded his perseverance, and one sportswriter even urged his selection as Canada's Athlete of the Year...
...tone he was able to attain, by adopting Truman's give-'em-hell style. Perspiration pouring from his face, his voice hoarse, his eyes coldly angry, Carter gave a shouting stump speech unlike almost any he has delivered before, in content as well as manner. It was a headlong assault on his rival, Ronald Reagan, depicting him as a dweller in "a world of tinsel and make-believe" who would "launch an all-out nuclear arms race" and start "an attack on everything that we've done in the achievement of social justice and decency in the last 50 years...
Kennedy captivated the convention hall audience Tuesday night and he captured the hearts and cameras of the media. But he was speaking to people who remembered his brothers, who understood his place in the context of history and of American liberalism, who had watched his humiliating campaign. On the stump, however, Kennedy was perceived not only as irresponsible--the tarnish of Chappaquiddick seems resistant to the polish of time and resilient to the force of reason--but also personally weak. In short, though the polls show many Democrats agree with him, he was unable to best a spectacularly unsuccessful president...
Reagan's main foreign policy theme is anti-Sovietism-visceral, unequivocal and global. In his stump speeches, Reagan's voice vibrates with passion when he refers to "the historical role of the Soviet Union, which is to dominate every corner of the world." In private briefings, he becomes most attentive, animated and even argumentative when the subject turns to the Soviets: "How can we trust them? They'll nail us every chance they...