The Triumph and the Trivia: Inside the Carter Headquarters in Pennsylvania
Shapiro, Walter
The Triumph and the Trivia: nside the Carter Headquarters in Pennsylvania by Walter Shapiro I have always been seduced by the imagined drama of presidential politics. One of the most vivid...
...The problem is that no one really seems certain what noon turnout in Pittsburgh generally is...
...It is agreed that the Carter campaign will pay $500 for 25 pollwatchers in the Puerto Rican community...
...Kraft, who speaks fluent Spanish, went to Puerto Rico in mid-March to find a local chairman for Carter...
...Between the infrequent sessions of the New Mexico legislature, Rutherford pilots a balloon for Budweiser...
...Kalill is Lebanese and has been working on a Carter press release deploring violence in Beirut...
...Too Tall’ Rutherford and Troopers Sunday, April 25-It rains all day and the Carter visit to Glenwood Fun Sunday is canceled...
...It’s going to be close,” is Kraft’s assessment...
...One is secrecy...
...worrying about the weather...
...Put another way, I spent the whole campaign waiting to be discovered by CBS News, and when no camera crews arrived I had to face the grimy and expensive reality that running for Congress is not the most glamorous occupation in the world...
...Tim Kraft is concerned that too many appointments have been scheduled for Carter at the hotel that evening...
...You really should come by tonight and say hello,” she gushes...
...The camera crew charts Zausner’s every movement across the room, phone in hand...
...When he was Gover-nor, he visited five or six Latin American countries...
...The phone banks are not entirely secret, however...
...Except for Tim Kraft sitting at his desk making phone calls...
...No hard-sell or anything...
...The loudest laughter is triggered by the phrase "Pancho Villa moustache...
...Accompanying the press release is a short letter to Lebanese clergymen (it begins, “Dear Father”) asking them to discuss Carter with their congregations...
...The longest is a 30-minute interview with Walter Mews of the Associated Press, but Kraft’s particular concern is the one he set up-a 34 Tim Kraft and Jimmy Carter 15-minute session with Wendell Young of the Retail Clerks Union for 8:OO...
...It gives Carter 35 per cent, Udall 14 per cent and has Jackson trailing badly with just ten per cent...
...Also en route was Tom “Too Tall” Rutherford, a 29-year-old state senator from New Mexico whose campaign Kraft managed in 1972...
...These young lawyers, wearing their best suits, their petitions of complaint already prepared, seem to feel they are doing Jimmy Carter the kind of favor that he will never forget...
...Kraft rattles off a litany of Rizzo horror stories: “There have been a lot of unfavorable calls to our office...
...Kraft phones Pittsburgh Mayor Pete Flaherty, the most prominent Carter supporter in the state...
...agonizing over turnout...
...Griff Ellison reads the first paragraph aloud to the office: "A little more than a month ago, a slightly bedraggleiJlooking man of 35 with a Pancho Villa moustache and a mischievous grin came into Pennsylvania with a typically immodest goal: to nail down the 1976 Democratic presidential nomination for Jimmy Carter...
...Kraft merely smiles and herds the family toward the elevator...
...After a quick lunch, &aft calls the Philadelphia Sheraton to make a reservation for Franklin Delano Lopez...
...He is to be one of the speakers at a fundraising dinner for Carter featuring Ted Sorenson...
...30 [per cent favorable...
...Joe Timilty...
...There is vigorous channel switching to catch the maximum number of Carter clips...
...If you have friends out there you might call...
...Yes, Timilty, who had worked his way on stage to bask in the glow of Carter’s victory...
...In an organizational sense, there is very little that can be done in the last week of a campaign that will have much impact on the final outcome...
...In the background, Tick Segerblom is saying into another phone, “Did you see yourself in The New York Times today...
...In quest of more authentic experience than that filtered through television or books, I went along with some high-school friends to the 1964 Democratic Convention in Atlantic City...
...Rather, the element of high farce that surrounded the Carter campaign in the last week is symptomatic of an underlying reality of modern politics...
...Originally, Carter was to speak at a dinner of the National Council of Jewish Women, but they called at the last minute to say that the executive committee had voted to cancel the invitation...
...The trip to Jack Sullivan’s home to make phone calls is also a disaster because the Secret Service gets lost en route and Carter arrives so late that he can stay for only ten minutes...
...A shout is heard in the office: “Washington, here we come...
...One of the CBS reporters asks to visit one on election day...
...There is Andy Zausner, a Philadelphia attorney, saying into the phone in a staccato voice, “Trouble in the sixteenth ward...
...But in areas like that, who’s going to complain...
...In the background, Griff Ellison is saying into the phone, “I told the Secret Service, you can keep your command post at the Warwick, we’re going to be at the Holiday Inn...
...Although the NBC news team stays around for another 15 minutes, slowly loading their bulky equipment, none seems to find it odd that election day complaints flow into Carter legal headquarters in very erratic spurts...
...And Joe Timilty, a state senator from Massachusetts, who ran for mayor against Kevin White, should be arriving this weekend...
...Brown, immaculately clad in a denim leisure suit, confides that the election is “fluid, awfully fluid...
...But my most vivid memory of election day is after the polls closed and Carter’s strong victory was ratified by the television networks’ computers...
...They give Carter 38 per cent favorable in Philadelphia, 42 per cent in Pittsburgh, and 38 per cent statewide...
...If only we could explain it to the press...
...At best, the four phones in “Carter legal headquarters” rang once every ten minutes...
...For the uninitiated this was high election drama...
...Jackson people are going wild...
...Action was generated by having another Carter campaign headquarters call the legal strike force with false complaints...
...This was about one in the afternoon when an NBC camera crew, which obviously hadn’t gotten the word that this was a clean election, arrived to film the Carter strike force in action...
...It’s now almost 5:30 and Tim Kraft mentions that Calvin Carter, a third cousin of the candidate and an insurance executive in Tampa, will be coming by...
...Jack Sullivan, Carter’s state chairman, is telling a story about Pete Flaherty, the mayor of Pittsburgh who had endorsed Carter...
...I’ll get back to you...
...We obtained convention tickets from Frank Church by telling his administrative assistant that I was really a resident of Boise who just happened to be going to school back East...
...A moment later, Zausner is answering another call and then walking to the office’s giant wall map to point to where Broad and Lehigh are...
...7:55-No sign of Wendell Young...
...Thanks again, Lefty, give Joe all the help you can...
...Skinner Donahue greets him with the news, “The Boston Globe did a story on me...
...In 1972 I waspreoccupied with my own political career, having embarked on a long-shot congressional candidacy that made me the equivalent in Michigan’s second congressional district of Mo Udal1 in the present presidential campaign...
...How you, Cousin Cal...
...Jimmy’s right on top of the situation in Puerto Rico,” Kraft reports...
...He adds, however, “Last night, the hotel had Sorenson being billed for his room...
...There is Jimmy Carter, bathed in television lights, sayihg to the crowded ballroom, “It’s a mistake to single out a few people for this victory, but let me just introduce (Pittsburgh mayor) Pete Flaherty, (former Senator) Joe Clark, (state volunteer chairman) Jack Sullivan, and Joe Timilty...
...Tim Kraft and most of the 38 other Carter staff members are worried where they will be sent next...
...Griff Ellison has the unpleasant task of calling the organizers of Earth Day...
...Someone says, “The press and the Governor do not like the Warwick...
...Most of these were reports, not of election fraud, but of simple machine breakdowns...
...Desultory conversation continues at the table in English and Spanish...
...Kraft and texts for ten-second spots...
...Kraft grimaces...
...Betty Rainwater, Carter’s assistant press secretary, comes by to tell Kraft, “If he’s not here by 8:10, Jimmy’s going to leave...
...He is asked where he will be sent after the Pennsylvania primary...
...Then a call to Bill Eaton of the Chicago Daily News about the possibility of voter fraud at the polls in Philadelphia on Tuesday...
...Meanwhile I notice a small item in the Philadelphia Inquirer promoting Earth Day...
...In his well-tailored navy blue suit, he is strangely out of place amid the debris of the office...
...Walter Shapiro is an editor of The Washington Monthly...
...The other is that Kissinger . . . neglects this hemisphere...
...A few minutes later he is on the phone saying, “Paul, it’s greatly appreciated...
...7:50-Tim Kraft, for the tenth time today, is asked if he knows where he is being sent after Pennsylvania...
...Hanging up, Kraft leans back in his swivel chair and sits motionless for about 90 seconds with his eyes tightly closed...
...He didn’t say anything, but I could tell he was annoyed...
...Kalill, who is in his early thirties, describes himself as “the first public official to endorse Carter in Massachusetts...
...By noon, the new obsession is turnout...
...Kraft, his eyes never leaving the door, just mutters, “To go West, you’ve got to give them an ultimatum like Chris Brown did...
...checking with campaign workers around the state...
...Kraft obliges, but when the reporters leave, Leibowitz asks him, “CBS, what do they know...
...The first is fairly sophisticated and detailed...
...Lunch is a group outing featuring Kraft, Kalill, Leibowitz, Tom “Too Tall” Rutherford, and Cathy Crein of CBS, who will be directing the network’s coverage of Carter on election night...
...If ever politics was to live up to the grandiose expectations that I had nurtured since youth, it should have been there in Pennsylvania on the eve of the most significant primary of 1976, watching the most successful long-shot ‘presidential campaign since Wendell Wilkie...
...Meanwhile, Carter is saying, “They’ve done all they could to hurt me...
...Leibowitz explains that NTA tries to keep its operation under wraps because the public-and much of the press-mistakenly assumes that phone canvassing is being done by campaign volunteers, not paid workers...
...We could go into Westmoreland County...
...Tick Segerblom, the assistant state coordinator, is telling Carter’s campaign director, Hamilton Jordan, “I’m finally meeting the candidate tomorrow...
...Lunch is obtained from the Happy Buddha, a Chinese carry-out...
...He greets Tim Kraft effusively and then says, with a rueful grin, “Did I louse anything up...
...He is Carter’s Southern California finance chairman...
...Mo Udall will be there...
...After about a half hour of trying, Kraft finally reaches someone at NTA: “What were your NTAs last night...
...ABC reports, “The polls show Carter ahead...
...A long, rambling discussion on what can be done in the Philadelphia Puerto Rican community three days before the primary is interrupted when Kraft excuses himself to make some phone calls from a pay booth...
...When Kraft finally reaches him, the conversation goes like this: “Hi, Lefty . . . Pretty good, boy . . . Sorry to bother you at home . . . Great, we appreciate that, it was a good trip . . . It was something that the local staff overlooked, they just don’t understand protocol...
...He stumbled on Lopez at an island-wide meeting of Americans for Democratic Action...
...It was this boy’s birthday and we were out celebrating...
...By 10: 15 the state campaign headquarters is empty...
...We’ll remember it...
...The highlight of the morning had been Kraft introducing Lopez to Carter, who was campaigning in Philadelphia...
...Everything in the office stops in honor of the seven o’clock news...
...By this time Kraft is on the phone, resuming a steady stream of calls...
...There will also be some pro-Carter advertisements on Spanishspeaking radio stations in the last two days of the campaign...
...Paul Kalill is raving about how persuasive Ted Sorenson was at a campaign breakfast for Carter this morning...
...Everyone is knowledgeably repeating the information, “At noon in Pittsburgh the turnout is 12 per cent...
...Lopez complains that “one of the places we have to go to register a complaint is the home of the police chief who beat us up...
...I’m later told that he does Angie Dickerson’s teeth and that the labels in his clothing read “Halston...
...Looms in Sight Here are some of my impressions of those five crucial days in politics 1976: Thursday, April 22-Tim Kraft, Carter’s 35-year-old state coordinator, is partially immobilized with a throat infection...
...The critical period for understanding the Carter victory in Pennsylvania was four or six weeks before the primary, when Tim Kraft was traveling around the state, little noticed by the press, establishing the nucleus of the Carter organization...
...A moment later, Kraft returns from the phone to report, “No answer...
...They’re just fooling around with you...
...They’ll shave a few votes from Jackson to cover their bets...
...and “What is the long-range weather forecast in your area...
...Then suddenly, bedlam with all four phones ringing at once...
...He calculates aloud, "California is out, maybe I'll push for Ohio...
...It takes Kraft until 3:30 to reach Wendell Young of the Retail Clerks Union about his eight o'clock meeting with Jimmy Carter that evening: "Wendell, if you can be at the hotel at 7: 30, I'll meet you in the lobby...
...Calvin Carter and Kraft became friends during the Florida primary...
...Carter assures the author, “I’ll be reading it soon,” and disappears into a hotel suite for the television interview...
...In retrospect, I salute the wisdom of my campaign manager when I was running for Congress who wanted to ship me out of state on the day before the primary because she feared that I would only get in the way of election day operations...
...Pessimists dismiss the turnout as “light” and go back to worrying about the weather in Wilkes-Barre...
...Kraft and Lopez are alternately explaining how Jackson stole the Puerto Rican delegation from Carter...
...All the troops are coming in” was the way Tim Kraft described the process...
...The fallback plan is that Carter should go to the home of Jack Sullivan, and use the time to make phone calls...
...It made this guy look ridiculous...
...One is an Earth Day rally at which Udall has already agreed to speak...
...Lopez, an amiable man with a small moustache, nods vigorously in agreement...
...Kraft is given the latest surveys by pollster Pat Caddell...
...I was going to mention Washington County...
...A minor crisis awaits Kraft...
...Another phone call goes to Tick Segerblom, the assistant state coordinator...
...A decision is made to send Carter to the Glenwood Fun Sunday instead of Earth Day...
...What do I t e l l them when they come tomorrow...
...The windowless room was filled with campaign equipment and Kraft’s battered suitcase lying open on the floor...
...Optimists call the Pittsburgh turnout “moderate” and take consolation in the fact that it is not actually raining in the Philadelphia area A few of the most sanguine even dismiss the persistent snow rumors as merely “flurries...
...The Times had run a small profile of the Carter advance man in Williamsport , Pennsylvania...
...Tick Segerblom is worried because Pat Caddell has given him “indicator precincts in Pittsburgh that don’t exist...
...In the interim, Kraft puts him to work calling delegates pledged to Pennsylvania Governor Milton Shapp, who has already dropped out of the race...
...Griff Ellison, a 29-year-old former assistant publisher at Harper’s who is handling scheduling in Pennsylvania, asks Kraft to choose between two conflicting events that Carter has been invited to on Sunday...
...A state senator from BostonJoe Timilty, he ran against Kevin White-is coming down and I thought he could be most useful in the last couple of days calling union leaders and explaining Jimmy’s record...
...The two-paragraph story, obviously rewritten from a press release, begins, "Jimmy Carter will be there...
...Roger Mudd observes, “A Carter victory in Pennsylvania could signal that it is all over...
...The overwhelming consensus is that New Jersey is a hardship post and being selected for California is the equivalent of being tapped for SkullandBones...
...Jackson, 35 per cent...
...I .hope we can have a free election...
...In briefing me on the campaign, Kraft announces, “I have Franklin Delano Lopez coming in from herto Rico...
...There was just one period of intense activity...
...She really likes you, you’re one of her favorites...
...Kraft haS also arranged for Carter to pose for pictures with Franklin Delano Lopez and the other members of the Puerto Rican delegation...
...Lefty, I just wanted to ask you for a little assistance...
...Brown has been given Kraft’s old job as Western states coordinator...
...As it turned out, the Pennsylvania primary was one of the quietest elections on record...
...About 12:30, two CBS radio reporters arrive to interview Tim Kraft...
...Tim Kraft is handed a message that says that NBC has found out about the cancellation and is calling fpr an explanation...
...He’ll either run for mayor again or a congressional seat...
...One of the new arrivals in the campaign headquarters is Art Leibowitz, a large man with a goatee, who is in charge of NTA’s phone canvassing operation in Pennsylvania...
...Tim Kraft shouts when Calvin Carter, a dapper looking man wearing a light blue blazer, enters the room...
...I still equated a campaign headquarters on the eve of election day with life in the trenches just before going over the top, Watching at home, I became as excited over the long count in the Wisconsin primary last March as I did over the final game of the 1975 World Series...
...Griff Ellison asks, “Tim, what should we do if the Glenwood thing is canceled by rain...
...There is one moral to this story, however...
...He is chatting with Roger Lewis, a young dentist with suede patches on his sport jacket, who has flown in from the West Coast to help with the final days of the campaign...
...All that’ I am left with are the residues of my boyhood obsession with baseball...
...The second, which is taped for radio, focuses almost exclusively on the chances of violence at the polls...
...Unfortunately, my congressional race did little to dislodge presidential politics from its prominent role in my personal myth structure...
...Thus, the interpretation of this information is a barometer of moods...
...Already, Roger Lewis, the Southern California dentist, and Ben Brown, the black state representative from Georgia, have selected it as their base of operations...
...Not ideal weather, but not a blizzard either...
...Have you seen any increased activity, phone banks or anything like that...
...Kraft uses this information to make another projection of the outcome of the preferential primary-Carter, 38 per cent...
...To satisfy my own craving for some really authentic political experience, I spent most of the week before the April 27 Pennsylvania primary sitting close to the center of Jimmy Carter’s state campaign...
...One of his major concerns is getting the results of yesterday’s telephone canvassor “NTAs” as they are called, after the commercial firm that does the work...
...Do you know if anyone has called the Warwick to cancel...
...Both have demanded Carter’s presence and both guarantee crowds of about 5,000 people...
...Franklin Delano Lopez and several of his colleagues from the Carter campaign in Puerto Rico have set up a meeting with representatives of Philadelphia’s Spanish-speaking community...
...Periodically, one can hear Franklin Delano Lopez, saying, “I was very impressed with his knowledge of our situation in herto Rico...
...When Kraft returns, two decisions are made...
...At 1O:OO Tim Kraft is humming, “Nothing but the dead and dying in my little town,” and announcing, “Bad weather in Pittsburgh...
...Arriving back at his office, Kraft finds in the mail a Xerox copy of a Washington Post profile of him...
...After hearing about a number of possible deals with Philadelphia machine politicians uneasy about their alliance with Jackson, Timilty observes: “I think the dice are cast...
...A second later Zausner is on another phone, saying, with even greater urgency, “I’m told that the entire ward is having illegal electioneering...
...He then takes a message slip off the pile and calls Hal Gulliver, the political editor of the Atlanta Constitution...
...He is given a detailed run-down on the situation in Philadelphia...
...It has gotten slim handling...
...Carter looks grave as he says, “I wish I could have been down there with you...
...Cousin Cal Carter & Co...
...Unless war is declared, little that can be ifltiated in the closing hours of a political campaign has much impact on the outcome...
...It is now 10:30 and ten people are crowded around a table in Stouffer’s restaurant in the heart of the downtown business district...
...It’s too late...
...One of the most vivid memories of my childhood is watching the ever so valiant, but ever so futile, rallies for Adlai Stevenson at the 1960 Democratic Cqnvention...
...As Paul Goodrich, who was overseeing the legal strike force, put it, “Our lawyers are just sitting around with nothing to do, lying about how much they make and the big antitrust actions they almost handled...
...Sitting there in the campaign headquarters, dubbed “Carter legal headquarters” for the duration, they seem preoccupied with the prospect of serving as “assistant attorney general” in the Carter administration...
...The Puerto Rican party caucuses were disrupted by bitter fist fights between Jackson and Carter supporters...
...Meanwhile, ten or so lawyers, assembled from up and down the east coast, are on hand to guard against possible voting irregularities in Philadelphia...
...Carter claims to have won 11 delegates at the initial caucuses, but a rump session was later held that elected a delegation pledged to Jackson...
...I wasn’t awae that you sent out a news release . . . It just wasn’t the best place, that’s all...
...Another problem is that rain is forecast for Sunday in the Philadelphia area...
...There have been some virtual threats . . . .Some city employees have been told to get their relatives off the Carter bandwagon...
...You’ll like him-he’s going places...
...Throughout the day, he will be calling his local coordinators around the state and asking two key questions: “Seen much Jackson activity...
...Joe Timilty finally arrives at 7:30, looking like he just stepped off a campaign poster...
...Franklin Delano Lopez writes the campaign a check for $250 to help cover it...
...Kraft, who is speaking English with occasional forays into Spanish, makes a brief presentation to the group: “When the Governor talks about foreign policy he emphasizes two things...
...Voting irregularities are, of course, almost a secular religion in certain machine wards...
...In retrospect, the authenticity quotient was limited...
...But it left only trivia to deal with in the few days before the election...
...The advance is all screwed up...
...This was a basic political truth that I should have remembered...
...Friday, April 23-It is slightly after noon when Tim Kraft arrives at the state campaign headquarters with Franklin Delano Lopez in tow...
...Then as suddenly as the calls began, they cease...
...So I get to meet the man whom R. W. Apple of The New York Times called “the Gene Pokorny of 1 9 7 6’’ (Kraft organized Carter’s opening victory in the Iowa precinct caucuses) in the basement of the Philadelphia townhouse where he was staying...
...They discuss the merits of sending an additional campaign worker into Butler County (it’s not one of the “biggies...
...Then there is a state senator coming in from New Mexico...
...7:45-Tim Kraft is growing increasingly nervous, his eyes darting from one entrance to another looking for Wendell Young...
...Tim Kraft begins his round of phone calls...
...Kraft commiserates by noting, "We've never had this many people and Jimmy in the same state before...
...Throughout the afternoon, Kraft tries to reach “Lefty” Scamese, a steelworkers official who is friendly to the Carter campaign despite his union’s endorsement of Jackson...
...She complains that "we can't find any black VIPs" for Carter to meet with...
...Tim Kraft’s major concern is that not all the Puerto Ricans are in the picture...
...A Happy Ending Nothing in the preceding narrative should be interpreted as suggesting that Tim Kraft and the other key Carter workers are not able campaigners...
...Kraft, who was executive director of the New Mexico Democratic Party before signing on with Carter, calls a The Washington Monthly/July-August 1976 friend in Albequerque to get the results of the New Mexico caucuses...
...It’s the third time they’ve called...
...F.D.L...
...For me, after spending a week with the Carter campaign in Pennsylvania, there is no more mystique about what goes on inside a presidential campaign headquarters...
...There was total silence for the five minutes after NBC arrived...
...Leibowitz hand delivers the latest phone canvassing results...
...But I did get to shake Adlai Stevenson’s hand (“I’ve always admired you, Governor,” I recall saying), and got an autograph from Luci Baines Johnson...
...He’s our chairman down there...
...That’s all...
...Last I heard it was snowing in Wilkes-Barre...
...Segerblom explains, “For the last four months my father has been asking me if I’ve met him yet...
...The conversation goes like this: “Mayor, sorry to bother you if you’re busy...
...The weather elsewhere in the state is a subject of endless speculation...
...I was standing right next to him when he checked in...
...At 9:30 a. m. Tick Segerblom reports that “it’s snowing in Altoona...
...It is the warm-up...
...Not only of her, but of both of them” Across the room, Roger Lewis, wearing a blue leisure suit and a gold chain around his neck, is saying, “I’ve got a great fund-raising approach...
...Zausner’s Urgent Call Tuesday, April 2 7 (Election Day) -In Philadelphia, election day is gray with temperatures in the forties...
...It is a difficult phone call: “It’s so far out of town and off our route . . . We had to push for a site much closer to where our plane is...
...The other is a community fair called Glenside Fun Sunday...
...Kraft hands Carter an article from the San Juan newspaper on the “ethnic purity” controversy which was written by one of the members of the Puerto Rican delegation...
...You’re mentioned in the last paragraph...
...Somehow I missed the 1968 and 1972 presidential campaigns...
...I just wanted to get the late evening bulletin...
...The handwriting on the wall says I'll get New Jersey," Kraft says with some sadness...
...Joe Timilty was finally flying in from Boston that evening...
...At 7:30 Kraft is in the lobby of the hotel waiting for Wendell Young...
...That was the work that showed up in the Pennsylvania results on election day...
...A decision is deferred while Ellison goes to check out both sites...
...Monday, April 26-The state headquarters has become increasingly hectic as the number of outsiders has steadily grown...
...Saturday, April 24 -Scheduling for Carter’s return to Philadelphia this eyening and Gs plans for tomorrow are the first concern this morning...
...1 was wondering if he could touch base with you and you could give him a few names . . . He’s got a future...
...Pollster Pat Caddell comes by and tells Kraft, “You better pray that we make some headway with Rodino and the uncommitteds on Wednesday and Thursday or you’re going to New Jersey...
...All four phones in the small state headquarters are in active use...
...I can assure you that I will never set foot in a niajor league clubhouse...
...I’m told this is the third or fourth time people have called on this...
...Later in the morning, Kraft chats with Charlotte Scott, the local press secretary...
...Don’t get any closer to your childhood passions than a television set or the lending library...
...Later in the afternoon, Mikki Ehrenfeld, who has been scheduling Roslynn Carter, comes by to talk with Tim Kraft...
...Wandering aimlessly around the office is Ben Brown, a black state representative from Georgia...
...Hanging in there, isn’t i t . . . Let’s see how about a recall on the twos [the undecideds...
...Kraft wonders how Joe Timilty is doing with Lefty Scamese, the steelworker official...
...Jordan laughs and says, “Big thrill...
...I hear Lopez telling Carter, “. . .then they say our conventions are canceled and the police chief who beat us up...
...I’ll tell Jimmy...
...Griff Ellison consoles him by saying, “We wanted to get out of it anyway...
...Actually, they conduct two interviews with Kraft...
...36 8:05-Tim Kraft slowly gets off the couch, reaches in his pocket for a dime, and says tonelessly, “I’ll just go confirm the disaster...
...He called it an out-and-out disenfranchisement and told Franklin that we’re going to fight for those delegates...
...In 1961, I actually cried while reading what I thought to be a terribly poignant passage about Hubert Humphrey’s West Virginia campaign in The Making of the President 1960...
...Udall, 17 per cent...
...8:lO-Wendell Young, wearing a lime green leisure suit, walks into the hotel lobby with his wife and young son trailing in his wake...
...A new arrival in the office is Paul Kalill, a city councilman from Springfield, Massachusetts, who has flown down at Kraft’s request...
...You’re going to need 32 black callers, of course . . . If we contracted for more calls, would you know where to put them...
...Here was this guy trying to line up an Allegheny County cocktail party for Carter at $1 00-a-plateY” Sullivan said, “and then Pete Flaherty invited them all free...
...Joe Timilty’s Late Charge Around mid-afternoon, Kraft visits’ the main Philadelphia headquarters...
...In 1968 my abdication was voluntary since I was going through a phase where my political views were a little to the left of Bernadine Dohrn and therefore had little time for the likes of Kennedy or McCarthy...
...It sounds like a Humphrey trick to me,” was Kraft’s assessment...
...I say I’ve just flown in from California to raise money and how desperately we need it for tomorrow...
...The photographs are taken in a hotel corridor, where Carter pauses before a seven o'clock television interview...
...So I said it was a mistake and had the hotel bill it to the campaign...
Vol. 8 • July 1976 • No. 5
