Newt Gingrich predicted that it would be “a mean, cruel, brutal campaign.” In fact, it already was. At a dinner with Wall Street heavies a presidential assistant said that Kennedy’s “not going to survive the primaries”—a very rude joke indeed. Carter began spraying favors on key constituencies: $3.1 million in public housing grants to Dade County just before the Florida state Democratic convention; a promise to Chicago mayor Jane Byrne to relocate an Air Force station from O’Hare to pave the way for the airport’s expansion. (She endorsed Kennedy anyway.) On October 20,
