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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...other side of the "Clean for Gene" coin was a nervous sense of truce that hung over the New Hampshire campaign. In backroom late night talks at the Wayfarer there was no shortage of McCarthy staffers who said this would probably be their final trip "within the system." There were some who didn't mind admitting that, personally, they'd rather throw firebombs or get heavy into dope--but they were attracted by the drama, the sheer balls, of McCarthy's "hopeless challenge...
...single most effective lawmaker on Capitol Hill. But with advantages of pointing to experience come the disadvantages of not being able to slide too far on the issues. In New Hampshire, Dudley says, she doubts whether the "gun control votes"--her label--would fall on Kennedy's side in any case. Other organizers worry more and, like nervous players glancing the clock, wait for tomorrow night's returns and hope for the best...
...Democratic side, the Carter forces briefly had hoped-perhaps unrealistically-to knock Kennedy out of the race in Maine. When they failed to do that, they became worried about New Hampshire. Patrick Caddell, the President's pollster, feels that the local polls showing Carter way ahead cannot be trusted. His own surveys indicate that the President's lead is narrowing fast. Carter's staffers are sure that his failure to campaign is hurting him in a state where voters are accustomed to looking a candidate in the eye. Every night, White House Chief of Staff Hamilton Jordan...
...every speech, Kennedy is strenuously attacking Carter from the liberal side on both foreign and domestic issues. Explains a top aide: "He's only comfortable with that, not tailoring his opinions to this group or that poll." Kennedy opposes draft registration. "I would rather do with less gas than shed American blood to defend OPEC pipelines," he shouts. And nuclear power: "There is no position for nuclear power in a Kennedy energy program." And on the economy: "I will stop inflation in its tracks." His aides believe that Kennedy draws most blood when he assails Carter for "not coming...
Carter has increased his private correspondence with the other world leaders. He has sent off secret messages to 120 nations about the Olympic boycott. Now there is a discernible shift to our side in their replies...