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Beatty brokered a fragile truce between the two men, perhaps facilitated by the fact that Mondale had been quoted in the Boston Globe calling Caddell “crazy,” which infuriated the pollster.

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Recalls Caddell, “I had my problems with the weirdos, the Indian dancer who I used to call Princess Winter-Spring-Summer-Fall.”

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Recalls Caddell, Democratic Party activist Miles Rubin handed him Gail Sheehy’s piece about Marilyn Young-bird on the shuttle going to New York at seven in the morning.

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Pat Caddell, a bright guy, came up to Camp David with a load of books under his arm about social psychology and public confidence.

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Caddell proposed that Carter speak to the public about this failure of will and urge them to buckle up and deal with it.

The Good Fight Walter F. Mondale 2010

But his pollster, Pat Caddell, and some others were saying this problem was something bigger, a problem of national confidence.

The Good Fight Walter F. Mondale 2010

I looked at the books Caddell had brought to Camp David, and they were the same texts I had read at the University of Minnesota years earlier.

The Good Fight Walter F. Mondale 2010

He said he agreed with Caddell that voters had begun to feel our administration was drifting and that he had to do something decisive.

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On Election Day, Carter and the campaign staff got an early call from Pat Caddell.

The Good Fight Walter F. Mondale 2010

On July 5, I climbed aboard a helicopter with Stu Eizenstat, Ham Jordan, Jody Powell, and Pat Caddell and we lifted off to join Carter and Rosalynn in the Catoctin Mountains.

The Good Fight Walter F. Mondale 2010