The "crisis" of Mr. Jordan's title was the Iran hostage crisis, around which the last

year of Jimmy Carter's Presidency revolved. A brilliant postmortem on the Presidency and the re-election campaign. WFB: "What was the morning-after reaction to the startling choreography at Madison Square Garden when the President sort of reached out for Teddy Kennedy's hand and Kennedy took it as though he were being handed a dead rat?" HJ: "Two dead rats.... The symbol of a unified party after these fights is usually the winner and the loser with uplifted hands. Senator Kennedy that night seemed unable to accommodate President Carter... That became the symbol of a divided party in the fall campaign."