Mondale's Demanding Suitors

Hart offers a truce, but women are getting more restless

The meeting did not start well. Walter Mondale, who had walked over from his hotel 15 minutes earlier, met his dogged challenger Gary Hart at the front door of the elegant Manhattan townhouse. The Colorado Senator, who had been up late, told Host Arthur Krim that he could use some coffee. "Your people said you'd want tea with your bacon and eggs," said Krim, a motion-picture executive. "That's the trouble with my campaign," replied Hart. "I like lots of coffee, and I don't eat...

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