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...week progressed, however, the standard stump speech became laced with Carterisms. At a Democratic Party rally in Albuquerque, Mondale urged a new Government "close to the values we have learned in church." He added: "Washington seems distant, isolated, out of touch with the American people." Touring a 1,700-acre farm in Missouri, he described the family farm as "our most sacred institution" and blamed farmers' problems with some Government programs on "unknown, unelected, faceless bureaucrats...
...else in the nation. The President leads in conservative Utah and Idaho; he is also running neck and neck in Oregon and Colorado and is close to Carter in Washington. Jerry Brown, wooed by Carter and eager to establish his good-soldier credentials for the future, has pledged to stump hard to help the Democrat carry the biggest prize, California's 45 electoral votes. Pollster Mervin Field feels Carter leads by six to eight points, but warns that the margin is soft...
...Nixon's offer of campaign help in 1974: "I haven't invited him to stump for me, but I wouldn't mind if Nixon flew over the state...
...ready four years from now." Connally does not want to become Ford's campaign manager, which he considers a job for a technician, not a statesman of his stature. Besides, he doubts Ford-Dole can win. Still, Connally will visit nearly 100 congressional districts in 72 days to stump for candidates for Governor and Congress. The same tactic was used successfully in the 1966 election by Richard Nixon, who rose from the bone yard by crisscrossing the country to speak for candidates and build up political credits. Connally's wheeler-dealer image and milk-fund taint, which...
ELLIOT RICHARDSON, 56, faded. The Commerce Secretary has held a record four Cabinet posts and yearned to be Vice President. Though he remained on various lists till near the end, his liberal image and stodgy stump style foredoomed him. Richardson missed a White House call notifying him that he had been bypassed and, as he tried to return the call, learned from a passer-by that Dole had been chosen. If Ford is elected, Richardson could become Secretary of State, but he concedes that "I may be looking for a job in November." The opposition that he evokes from...