Still tethered to the past, the heirs of F.D.R. are groping for the future
The band will strike up Happy Days Are Here Again, the party leaders will clasp hands in the traditional victory salute. Banners will wave, rhetoric will flow. When the Democrats meet next week in San Francisco to nominate a ticket for the 1984 election, they will strive mightily to stage a tableau of unity and shared purpose.
The hoopla will be a façade. Even if Walter Mondale manages to smooth over his rifts with Jesse Jackson and the feisty women's movement, even...
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