Carter deals with his two problems as the convention nears
In the final days before the Democratic Party was to select its candidate for President, Jimmy Carter moved impressively on two fronts to tighten his grip on the nomination. He cooled the uproar over his brother Billy with an impressive full-hour prime-time press conference and with a 99-page report to a Senate investigating subcommittee. At the same time, his aides were negotiating pre-convention compromises with Challenger Edward Kennedy's camp that reduced the danger of a grand old Democratic donnybrook this week in Madison Square...