Despite its foregone conclusion, the convention was a sizzler of a show
As Walter Mondale prepared to end his long march to the presidential nomination at last week's Democratic Convention, he and his staff left no detail, large or small, to chance. Yet no planner can manufacture drama and passion, and the Democrats' four-day spectacular in San Francisco surprised everybody with its abundance of both. From New York Governor Mario Cuomo's poignant evocation of the party's melting-pot past to Jesse Jackson's sweaty, moving, 51-minute tour de force to Geraldine Ferraro's winning performance in her...
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