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234 sLAde goRton: A hALf centuRy in poLitics member of a minority party, being a senator was nothing like being a governor. In p ...
the coMeBAcK 235 Evans’ decision created the state’s first wide open U.S. Senate race since 1944 when Magnuson defeated Harry Ca ...
236 sLAde goRton: A hALf centuRy in poLitics Mc LicgAv K ooKed youngeR thAn 30. In campaign years, though, he was an old pro, ha ...
the coMeBAcK 237 Afterward, McGavick and Gorton walked back to their offices together. “How do you feel?” “I feel like crap.” “W ...
238 sLAde goRton: A hALf centuRy in poLitics The planets were aligning. McGavick was busy putting together the campaign staff an ...
the coMeBAcK 239 nounced as “homeporking”— Gorton’s welcome was espe- cially warm. He said a strong military was essential to pr ...
240 sLAde goRton: A hALf centuRy in poLitics finally cornered him and asked if they could talk. “I’m not in public life anymore, ...
the coMeBAcK 241 McGavick and Gary Smith, the campaign’s communications direc- tor, were pleased to see Bonker beating up on Low ...
242 sLAde goRton: A hALf centuRy in poLitics into labor with their first child. He told her he needed to attend a campaign event ...
the coMeBAcK 243 waters. About the only thing lacking in this campaign until September finally came through was a sex scandal. I ...
244 sLAde goRton: A hALf centuRy in poLitics Adams made things worse when he refused to answer any questions, instructing his su ...
the coMeBAcK 245 ening thought.” The candidate and his retinue were sporting “War on Drugs Booster Club” buttons. “The single mo ...
246 sLAde goRton: A hALf centuRy in poLitics of Pamela Harriman, Georgetown’s grande dame of Democratic politics. The haul was $ ...
the coMeBAcK 247 the story they conducted a thorough search for corrections or clarifica- tions. Finding none, they aired the ad ...
248 sLAde goRton: A hALf centuRy in poLitics now seemed “concerned only with winning, not with how you play the game.”^42 In 200 ...
the coMeBAcK 249 dom issues,” backing gay rights, abortion and the Equal Rights Amend- ment, while opposing “Star Wars” and foll ...
250 sLAde goRton: A hALf centuRy in poLitics ad, especially the kids watching the truck roll by. Branding it “outrageous and sle ...
the coMeBAcK 251 over the final weekend. McGavick predicted they’d win “by an eke.” On No- vember 8, 1988, Washing- ton’s habitu ...
252 sLAde goRton: A hALf centuRy in poLitics The bottom line, Stu Elway’s polling confirmed, was that the Gorton campaign convin ...
253 28 | Who Gives a Hoot? O nhe t MoRning of JAnuARy 19, 1989, Gorton and McGavick were settling in, assembling the senator’s s ...
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