The Presidency
Senator Edward Kennedy is taunting President Carter to come out from the Rose Garden and fight fair and square. He feels that he would benefit from a head-to-head encounter, or be enhanced by having a live President near by to attack. It probably is worth the gamble, but Kennedy could be wrong.
There is a body of political seers who are pressuring Jimmy Carter to join the primary fray so that Kennedy cannot make an issue of Carter's absence. Reporters naturally want a spectacle, and so in the name of the national interest they are calling for the President to...
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