JACKSON DROPS OUT, ENDORSES SAGAN
Surprise Endorsement puts Sagan Back in the Race
--New York Times, March 12th, 1988
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"So at first, Jesse wanted VP. And I had to tell Carl, 'No, that's stupid.' Winning the nomination wouldn't matter if we just lost the election anyway, and we were already on the ropes with moderates. Jackson as VP was just not gonna go well.
"So instead, I told him, 'He can be Sec. of State.' He had shown some diplomatic skills already
[1], so we knew he would be an acceptable pick. So that's what we told him. And, well, we thought he was gonna say no. This was all a long shot.
"But his campaign was going to be just as much of a could-have-been as ours was about to be if we didn't join forces, and I think he knew that. This way, he could accumulate experience and popularity to run in '96, 2000 or 2004. And he'd be the first black Sec. of State, too.
"And above all, he wanted Gore, a pro-life moderate conservative, to lose more than he wanted to win. And that was common ground."
--James Carville, in a 2004 CNN interview
ROBERTSON, BUSH SPLIT SUPER TUESDAY STATES
Brokered Convention Ahead?
--USA Today, March 9, 1988
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Pat Robertson
George H. W. Bush
Bob Dole
BUSH (ENRAGED): Goddammit!
Bush hurls a wadded-up Robertson campaign poster across the room. Atwater sits silently for a moment, as Bush takes deep breaths.
ATWATER: You done?
--Script for the 2013 Netflix political thriller series The 700 Clubber, Episode 03 of Season 01, "Primaries Part One". This scene would go viral, to the chagrin of Bush, who claimed it wildly inaccurate.
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[1] https://slate.com/news-and-politics/1999/05/how-does-jesse-jackson-do-it.html