Word: whips
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Louisiana delegation, Inez Fourcard, a black Carter delegate, told a reporter: "I'm for Carter, all right. But I've decided I'm against that rule. I don't want someone hanging over my head telling me what to do." A Carter whip overheard her remark. Suddenly, Chip Carter, the President's son, appeared at her seat and kindly offered to autograph her green Carter-Mondale poster. He wrote: "Thank you for your help on behalf of my father. With love, Chip Carter...
Pennsylvania's vote sealed Kennedy's fate. Its 83 votes against his position provided the winning majority. On the previous weekend, Carter Campaign Manager Robert Strauss had been worried enough about Pennsylvania to instruct a Carter whip working the delegation: "Tell them we'll yank them off the damned convention floor if they don't want to vote with us. Whip, whip, whip them into shape!" The final tally was 1,936.4 to 1,390.6 in favor of Carter's position on the rule?an unexpectedly comfortable margin of 545.8 votes...
...floor whip rushed in and told Strauss that a couple of Wyoming delegates were slipping away. Would Strauss call them? "Yeah, give me that phone," he said. Strauss got his man, purred into the phone about needing every vote and talked about returning to Wyoming to hunt with the delegate. Strauss's face broke into a grin as he put down the receiver. "We got those two back," he told Jordan. Strauss is a man who knows the value of a swap. He had raised money for many of the politicians here, done them countless favors...
...Tehran, the militants exploited the arrests of the Iranians in the U.S. to whip up a new anti-American frenzy. Fakhredin Hejazi, a leading member of the new Iranian Parliament, alluded to the U.S. hostages when he warned darkly that "the U.S. will be sorry if the slightest harm comes to our children." Meanwhile, a crowd of more than 100,000 fist-waving Iranians marched to the occupied American embassy to demonstrate on behalf of their countrymen imprisoned...
...much of it is dull," she added, comparing the scene to the Cambridge City Council with an extra 3200 councilors. One reason for the boredom is that in most cases delegates don't even vote; unless they want to deviate from the Kennedy or Carter line, the delegation whip for each candidate simply casts their vote for them. "If the Carter person says 'Tom O'Neill can't vote, he's across the hall talking to someone,' then the Kennedy leader says, 'Sure, and how about Governor King?'" Massachusetts delegation aide Greg Jarboe explains. "They always manage to work...