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The Gortons and Slades - Washington Secretary of State

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Slade with Betsy Nortz, his first gr<strong>and</strong>child,<br />

on Primary Election night 1988. Gorton Family<br />

Album<br />

the coMeBAcK 239<br />

nounced as “homeporking”—<br />

Gorton’s welcome was especially<br />

warm. He said a strong<br />

military was essential to promoting<br />

peace <strong>and</strong> protecting<br />

America’s strategic interests.<br />

In this, he said, he <strong>and</strong> Sally<br />

had a new stake: A five-weekold<br />

gr<strong>and</strong> daughter whose father<br />

was a bombardier/navigator<br />

with an A-6 Intruder<br />

squadron on the carrier Enterprise<br />

in the thick <strong>of</strong> things<br />

in the Persian Gulf.<br />

Peace activists outside<br />

one <strong>of</strong> Gorton’s press conferences<br />

parted like Moses at<br />

the Red Sea when Sarah<br />

Gorton Nortz arrived with<br />

baby Betsy in her arms. Gorton<br />

commercials soon featured<br />

Slade giving Betsy her<br />

bottle. He was hugging, high-fiving or jogging across the tube to the soaring<br />

strains <strong>of</strong> the theme from “Chariots <strong>of</strong> Fire” or emphasizing that adversity<br />

can be character-building. “We lost some tough cases while I was<br />

attorney general,” Slade told the camera, “but the Senate loss was even<br />

more personal. I needed to listen more <strong>and</strong> the voters made that point<br />

crystal clear. But my parents taught me that you can come back from a<br />

loss <strong>and</strong> be even stronger.” McGavick was really in the driver’s seat this<br />

time, leaving no detail to chance. 22<br />

Marchioro, the Democratic chairwoman, allowed it was too bad the<br />

Academy Awards were h<strong>and</strong>ed out the week before. Lowry gave his patented<br />

little incredulous chortle, <strong>and</strong> his campaign manager, hard- charging<br />

Rose Kapolczynski, said she doubted the voters were gullible enough to<br />

buy an old wolf in a new Mister Rogers cardigan. Though still pr<strong>of</strong>essionally<br />

wary, some reporters couldn’t help but note the change in Gorton.<br />

Bob Partlow, the political writer for <strong>The</strong> Olympian <strong>and</strong> the other Gannett<br />

papers in the state, had covered Gorton’s first public appearance after his<br />

loss to Adams, a speech at <strong>The</strong> Evergreen <strong>State</strong> College in Olympia early<br />

in 1987. At a reception afterward, Gorton studiously avoided him. Partlow

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