Word: berle
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...campaign rousers. Then he flew on to Miami. All the while, a stop-McGovern coalition led by Arkansas' Wilbur Mills continued its last-minute efforts. A small Washington group of strategists bent on heading off the South Dakotan included Humphrey Aide Stan Bregman, Muskie's Berl Bernhard, Wallace's Billy Joe Camp and the AFL-Clo's Al Barkan...
They certainly did. Iowa Senator, Harold Hughes, complained about the lack of campaign leadership. Former Senator, Albert Gore, urged concentration on the nonprimary states, with curtailed campaigning for the April 25 primaries in Pennsylvania and Massachusetts. Berl Bernhard, Muskie's campaign chief, also advocated bypassing the rest of the primaries except for California with its winner-take-all 271 delegates...
Senator Edmund Muskie felt tired and ill. His replies on a television show were cold and argumentative, and one of his aides, Berl Bernhard, bluntly told Muskie that it was a bad performance. When Muskie publicly berated his staff for a bad press release, Bernhard protested firmly that such scoldings were not "particularly productive." The Senator scowled, then smiled. "Look, Nag," Muskie told Bernhard, "I'll stop knocking the staff if you'll stop telling the press I'm contentious and ill-tempered...
Last week Muskie selected Bernhard, 41, to direct his still unannounced presidential campaign. "There may be some people who feel they have to cushion me when there is unpleasant news, but they are wrong," says Muskie. "Berl doesn't cushion anything with me." A successful Washington lawyer both in and out of Government, Bernhard has a knack for employing humor to take the sting out of his stern judgments. "He will cut a guy's legs off if it has to be done," contends one close friend, "but he uses plenty of anaesthesia." Muskie prefers a woodsy Maine...
...Little Wary. By hitting the campaign trail so early-even if it began some 5,000 miles away in Jerusalem -Muskie also hopes to convince potential donors that it is not too early to place their money on him. Washington Lawyer Berl Bernhard quietly opened a campaign headquarters for Muskie nine months ago. So far, $250,000 has been raised, but one Muskie fund raiser estimates that another $1,500,000 will be needed even before the primary elections begin. It will not be easy to raise that sum. The men being solicited, notes an aide, are "all a little...