DEMOCRATS: The Joyous Risk of Unity

The water off Sea Island, Ga., was so rough that the crew of a Coast Guard launch got seasick, but an ornery ocean was not going to spoil Jimmy Carter's vacation. He came back from a day at sea with his digestive system intact, a bonito of respectable size and the usual fisherman's lament: "You should have seen the one that got away. It was one of the largest cobias I've ever seen."

Little else was escaping Carter's net or eye last week. Frank Church and Henry Jackson endorsed Carter. Though Morris Udall remained...

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