Word: stumping
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Hampshire. Because foreign affairs are more exclusively the province of the Executive Branch than are domestic matters, campaign promises are taken more seriously by voters-and by America's allies. A British diplomat has traveled on the Hart plane to observe the candidate on the stump. On an eight-day tour of the U.S. (see following story), French President François Mitterrand had a 15-minute face-to-face meeting with Hart and also telephoned Mondale...
...Richards and other supporters are not disappointed. Jackson eventually joins the march and then at the end delivers a stump speech...
...Hart's life, he remains in many ways just as reserved, self-contained and ambitious as he was when he left Ottawa 30 years ago. He prefers reading or modeling clay birds (eagles, mostly) in his office to jollying up his colleagues in the Senate cloakroom. On the stump "he's miserable at working crowds," says Colorado Governor Richard Lamm, a friend and supporter. Yet Hart this winter has worked hard to overcome his shyness and to press flesh cheerfully. "At times he is shy and withdrawn. But he has a great sense of humor," says Colorado Congressman...
Walter Mondale is a preacher's son from Elmore, Minn., who with little strain became Vice President. Before he began running for President, he made a million bucks in a couple of years for not doing much of anything. Yet when he looks out over America from the stump these days, he sees mostly desperation...
Rovere has a caricaturist's instinct for the grotesqueries of stump and smoke-choked room, of presidential campaigns, congressional hearings ("Nothing that Washington has to offer comes closer to theater") and state visits. He is at Nikita Khrushchev's elbow when the Soviet leader praises the bleak industrial landscape of the New Jersey Turnpike as a symbol of American dynamism; with Bess and Harry Truman as the couple, in bathrobes, bid good night from the back of their campaign train to an impromptu crowd of fellow ordinary Americans. Rovere's political analyses-about the Truman Administration...