University Daily Kansan, March 29, 1984
NATION AND WORLD
Page 13
Mondale asks for the meat of the matter in comeback
By DON PHILLIPS United Press International
WASHINGTON — At 8 p.m., Tuesday, March 6, in an auditorium in Tampa, Fla., Walter Mondale began his comeback.
Only three days before, the man once considered unbeatable for the Democratic presidential nomination had lost the Maine caucuses — which all were for him. But he also—and his campaign was in tatters. Sen. Gary Hart was riding high, and the
The strong showing by Gary Hart in the early Democratic primaries has forced Walter Mondale to become the aggressor in the campaign.
ANALYSIS
former vice president was a political hasbeen.
His imperial candidacy was ended. He no longer was he the anointed of his party, nearly waiting to-pick up his allies to go into battle with President Reagan.
— some say the best he ever gave —
came the old Mondale.
But it was clear that something was different about Mondale as he began talking on the warm night in Tampa. The cautious, the quiet, the cold, he been hiding his natural sense of humor, who had remained aloof, disappeared. Out of that speech
"What I'm doing tonight is campaigning for what I believe in," he said. "I don't know what else to do I am. Am I. What you see is what you get."
The speech said, in effect: I am an old-line Democrat. I'm for unions and social programs. I'm for blacks and
ouner minorities. I have been fighting for working people all my life, and there's nothing wrong with that. I won't change now.
"This is not just a horse race," he said. "This has become a battle for the soul of the Democratic Party and the future of our country. We're about to decide whether we'll be a generous citizen or a caring nation or whether we won't."
Unlike some of Moncail's speeches, no one went to sleep. His audience sensed that something was different, interrupting him dozens of times with screams and applause and punctuating the speech with so many shouts that it sounded more like a Jesse Jackson sermon than a Mondale rally.
New campaign themes emerged from the Tampa speech, which were repeated and refined through the next week and which are being used in primaries.
The 'new' Mondale
The Mondale who always took the political high road was no more. He was replaced by a campaigner who didn't know what to do with the trenches and slining a little mud.
Today, Mondale has fought back at least to a draw with Hart, winning the Illinois primary and entering into the big New York primary on Tuesday with some of the momentum that once had been Hart's.
Along the way, between his loss in the Feb. 28 New Hampshire primary and his loss to Rudy Gobert, he has benchmarks that mark the trail from defeat to victory I Weekend
eventually defeats Hart, they will be remembered as the signposts on the road to a remarkable political comeback.
The first indication that Mondale was about to change his plan of attack came during a hasty assembled briefing with reporters who were traveling with him regularly, on Thursday afternoon, March 1, two days after the New Hampshire defeat and two days before the Maine voting.
Mondale painted a gloomy picture, so gloomy that some thought he was crying wolf. But later events proved that Mondale knew better than most what kind of trouble he was in. A lawyer told Mondale that Mondale also laid out his campaign strategy, including his first direct attack on Hart.
"I think it was a drubbing," he said of New Hampshire "They were clearly saying something to me. And, as I see it
and I've given it very careful thought — this is going to be a long race. It's not going to be a short race.
"We didn't ask Gary Hart why he voted against the windfall profits tax
Toward the end of the hour-long briefing, little noticed at the time, Mondale laid out his campaign strategy against Hart. He said he had not sufficiently spelled out the differences between him and Hart, and said:
We might get around to that. Another $10 tax on imported oil. We're going to (ask) who's standing up to the special interests. Why did he vote against hospital cost containment? I'm standing up against the hospital lobby, the health lobby, the oil and gas boys. We'll have a little discussion about who stands up to the special interests, who's independent enough."
Gradually, day by day, Mondale stepped up his attacks on Hart, accusing him of taking contradictory positions on arms control, of proposing poorly thought-out tax policy, and of voting against the public interest on hospital cost containment and other issues. Without saying so directly, Mondale accused Hart of being shallow.
On Sunday, March 11, in a debate with Hart in Atlanta, he wrapped up his anti-Hart campaign into one long speech. He called the burglar chan ad: “Where's the beer?”
Where's the beef?
Politics is filled with ironies, and one
The phrase caught on with a vengeance. Signs and slogans popped up at
irony of the Mondale-Hart campaign may be that this one phrase may become the most important single event of the Mondale comeback.
Mondale badly needed to win somewhere on March 13, "super Tuesday." He won primaries in Georgia and Alabama, keeping his campaign alive.
In Illinois, for a few days it seemed as if Hart himself had joined the Mondale campaign. In a series of back-to-back blunders. Hart:
- Accused Mondale of running television ads pointing up Hart's family name change - from Hartpence and — from Huffington — to a former wife. He was 46 or 47. Hart has to apologize
- *Himself ran ads connecting Mondale with the white chairman of the Chicago City Council, Edward Vrdolak, a bitter enemy of black Mayor Harold Washington. He said the ads were a mistake and he was withdrawing them, but they continued to run through the weekend.
- Said in a Chicago debate that he had always supported moving the U.S. Israel embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, although a letter from Hart to a Zionist organization two weeks earlier to negotiate with other countries in the area.
The combination of constant attacks by Mondale and Hart's own mistakes helped make the Monday campaign's unstoppable force experienced, unsteady and inconsistent.
"We must have a president who's practical, or, as we say in Minnesota
Black educator Mays dies at 88
— he's got his head screwed on right," Mondale said.
By United Press International
ATLANTA — Dr. Benjamin Mays,
one of the nation's most respected
black educators and a mentor of
their peers, died yesterday. He was 88.
Kinder Jr., died yesterday. He was 88.
Mr. Mays, a former president of Morehouse College in Atlanta, also served as president of the Atlanta School Board and was credited by civic leaders with helping Atlanta maintain stable race relations at a time when other cities were plagued by riots in the 1960s.
At Morehouse, Mr. Mays held weekly meetings with students and helped instill some of his own faith, courage and ideas in King, who led the civil rights movement until he was assassinated in Memphis, Tenn., in 1968.
ATLANTA MAYOR Andrew Young said Mr. Mays' influence was instrumental in the development of King as a civil rights leader, in the election of
Jimmy Carter as president and in his own pursuit of elected office.
"Dr King used to say that Dr. Mays awakened him intellectually and spiritually."
"Benjamin Mays was one of the people who made it possible for the church to become a religion."
He said Mr. Mays saw in Carter a willingness to fight racial prejudice, and Mr. Mays' former students responded when the educator urged them to support Carter's bid for the presidency.
Young said that he entered politics — winning a Congressional seat in Georgia's 5th district — at Mr. Mays' urging.
"I will always remember Benjamin Eljahj Mays as a strong, tall, brisk-walking intellectual giant," Young said.
The mayor ordered flags flown at bus-staff on all city buildings in建址.
Carter described Mr. Mays as "a
monumental figure in the field of education and social progress."
"BENJAMIN MAYS WAS my personal friend, my constructive critic and my close adviser," Carter said. "We will miss him. This is indeed a sad day for all those who love peace and justice."
Mr. Mays died at 7:20 a.m. in Hughes Spalding Hospital where he was admitted Sunday for respiratory problems.
Mr. Mays was critical of both whites and blacks on the racial issue, condemning white racism and white liberals who only paid lip service to racial equality, and attacking black extremists such as the Black Panthers.
Mr. Mays, born Aug. 1, 1895, in Greenwood County, S.C., once said "the first thing I can remember is a white mob looking for a Negro to lynch."
He earned his undergraduate degree at Bates College in Maine and a masters and doctorate at the University of Chicago in Christian theology.
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