Word: finalize
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...several of the Senator's economic planks that seem out of touch with the realities of inflation and the mood of the country, including a call for a $12 billion jobs program that Carter had warned he could not accept. The Senator himself won 1,146.5 votes on the final roll call, to Carter's 2,129, an unheard-of performance for a man whose name was never formally placed in nomination, and who officially released his delegates to vote as they pleased before the ballot...
...visions of Reagan, the ideologue, and viewing a vote for Independent Candidate John Anderson as a ballot thrown away, will return, however grudgingly, to the fold. One politician unimpressed by the likelihood of any such Democratic unity is Ronald Reagan. Said he last weekend: "I shall forever remember the final scene that night when the Senator from Massachusetts joined the President on the platform. If that's the best they can do in unity, they have a long...
...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...
...last the blue placards yielded, and the Garden turned to a sea of green for the convention's final night. In his acceptance speech, Vice President Walter Mondale, as Carter later did himself, stressed the need to fight unemployment. But his speech will be remembered for its litany of past Reagan positions. Ending each citation with the question, "Who on earth would say something like that? Ronald Reagan did!" Mondale quoted Reagan as calling the weak and the disadvantaged "a faceless mass waiting for handouts"; saying programs that help blacks and Hispanics were "demeaning" and "insulting"; and declaring that...
...deed was done. The powerful Kennedy presence would still linger for the last two days of the convention, but it was not until the final evening that the underlying tensions surfaced sharply once again. When Kennedy was the last to arrive on the platform, barely concealing his discomfort, the President's men were livid. Kennedy's strained be havior caused among Carter's crew a whole new surge of anger against him. Now Carter's managers knew there was no real reconciliation, if one had ever been possible. They could expect only token support...