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George C. Thompson Waldorf...
Meeting until nearly midnight at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel after the dinner, Reagan's staff argued again whether to debate Carter without Anderson. Earlier in the discussions, Aides Mike Deaver, Bill Timmons, Lyn Nofziger and Richard Wirthlin were all to some degree opposed. Undecided or uncommitted were Stuart Spencer, Bill Casey and Ed Meese. Favoring acceptance were James Baker and Ed Gray. Now the sentiment shifted and a consensus for accepting an invitation to debate was reached. Learning of his staffs recommendation, Reagan readily concurred...
...angel, awesomely gifted, scrupulously moral and out to improve the world through humane capitalism; it is laced with enough mawkish prose and gratuitous personal detail to make Harold Robbins blush. As the scandal mounted, for instance, Sheehy reported: "Mary Cunningham sat in her hotel room at the Waldorf. She could not eat. Every so often, she stepped into the bathroom to vomit." Also: "The mildew of envy is a living, corroding organism in the corridors of power." Chairman Agee, Sheehy discloses, is currently taking Catholic instruction from Monsignor William Nolan, Cunningham's guardian since she was five. (Agee heatedly...
...Waldorf, Kennedy faced up to the end of his nearly ten-month quest for the presidential nomination. His top aides had considered what to do in case of a defeat on the rules fight. Kennedy had planned to issue a statement conceding that he no longer had a chance against Carter, yet let his name be placed in nomination nonetheless. But now he wandered back and forth between his family in one room and staff in another. Finally he made up his mind: "I think the right thing to do is to just get out. We carried...
Kennedy telephoned the President at Camp David to tell him that he planned to withdraw. The two talked for about four minutes. Said Carter: "I think we both waged good campaigns." Then Kennedy climbed up two flights of stairs to a Waldorf press room to read his withdrawal statement to some 100 reporters. "I'm a realist," he said. "And I know what this result means. The effort on the nomination is over...