So Who's That in the Gray Suit?

Ferraro and Mandate kick off early with a joint jaunt

No one had to ask Geraldine Ferraro who that man was alongside her, the one with the gray hair and suit to match. On the other hand, not everybody paid him a whole lot of attention either. In their first campaign swing together last week, Ferraro overshadowed Walter Mondale not only in her own Queens, N.Y., but in the South, the region where Democrats feared voters would least welcome a female vice-presidential candidate. From the puffery of the introductions to good-humored bantering with a...

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