Word: yield
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Jordan telephoned Camp David to explain their fears. "Mr. President," Jordan began, "we need to know how much you'll give up on the platform." Carter's answer: yield a little but absolutely not on wage and price controls. Then Strauss took the phone. "We're going to take a pasting today, Mr. President," he said, reporting that Kennedy seemed to be shutting them off. "He's going to be very tough. Get ready for it." Carter reminded Strauss that he had picked that up in Kennedy's voice the previous evening...
Then Party Chairman John White called from the podium with news of a second Kennedy offer. This time the Senator would yield on the minority report calling for wage and price controls if he could carry the other two. Jordan liked the sound of that and asked Strauss what he thought. "I say take it, take it right now," said Strauss. Jordan agreed, and Strauss grabbed the phone to tell Convention Chairman Tip O'Neill on the podium...
Strauss and Jordan got on the phones immediately to key Carter delegations - Illinois, Ohio, the Southern states - outlining the new position, namely to yield on the planks on job subsidies and fighting unemployment. Some delegations, like Ohio, bitterly resented the decision. Several others called the trailer to object. "It's tough," said Strauss to Jordan. "A lot of these guys broke their backs for us." Finally the time had run out, the Kennedy fever on the floor was holding at a peak. Strauss and Jordan had no time to call the President to ask for directions; they...
...part of all that I have met... Tho'much is taken, much abides... That which we are, we are?One equal temper of heroic hearts ... strong in will To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield...
...effective but sometimes abrasive former chairman of the Dow Chemical Co., and replaced him with Abboud. The ex-banker thus became the fifth man tapped for the Oxy-Pete presidency in the past decade by Hammer, who after 23 years at Occidental shows no signs of wanting to yield real authority to any possible successor. Said Hammer of his latest No. 2: "He's a brilliant banker and a smart businessman. He's very loyal and a man of great modesty. I like that." Abboud himself has no illusions about his chances for promotion. Says he: "Dr. Hammer...