Word: trailers
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Jordan wore a pinstripe suit, and whenever he stepped out of the trailer he fastidiously covered his bottle of beer with a brown paper bag. Strauss, in white shirtsleeves, leaned forward on the couch, a phone to his ear. A call had just come from the Maine delegates threatening to abandon Carter unless they received a statement from their favorite son, Ed Muskie, the Secretary of State, that he definitely would not run. Jordan quickly picked up another phone, dialed the President at Camp David and asked him to get Muskie to make the call...
...back inside the narrow trailer, he roll call over rules was under way. Four TV sets, all turned on, were stacked on top of one another in one corner, and he two men sat knee to knee watching closely. Carter Aides Jody Powell and Tim Kraft pushed their way into the rickety command center. Alabama was solid for Carter, but when California passed, Jordan thought he saw a strategy. "Kennedy is holding back the big states to make the others uneasy," he said. When Colorado lost a few Carter delegates, the group moved restlessly, but there was no real concern...
...Carter leaders moved back inside the trailer to listen to Kennedy. They were not expecting much from the speech itself; during the campaign they had become used to watching him stumble at big moments. But this was not the usual bellowing Kennedy. Right from the start the speech had a different ring. Immediately, the men in the trailer turned anxious. Strauss and Jordan were silent, holding advance copies of the speech in their hands, following the words closely. Black Leader Jesse Jackson squeezed into the corner of the trailer and stared hard at the screen. "What do you think, Jesse...
...tiny room was so jammed with people that Strauss had to stand in the doorway, stretching his neck to see the screen. Except for Kennedy's voice, there was no sound in the trailer. Jody Powell broke the stillness with a crack about the Senator's being in an easy position to suggest things, and the group grunted approval. Jerry Rafshoon piped up: "You tell them, Teddy," voicing the resentment in the room...
...instant Kennedy was through, the noisy demonstration of support from the floor filled the trailer. A call came in from Carl Wagner, a top Kennedy aide, and Tim Kraft cupped his hand to his ear and listened to an offer from the Senator. From the couch, Strauss watched intently. As Kraft repeated the terms out loud-Kennedy would abandon the agreed-upon roll call votes if Carter would concede three economic planks calling for wage and price controls, a jobs program and giving priority to fighting unemployment-Strauss got to his feet and let loose. "The hell with that...