Democratic presidential nominee Senator John Kerry and his running mate Senator John Edwards embrace as New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson and Teresa Heinz Kerry applaud (L) at a campaign train stop in Las Vegas, New Mexico, August 7, 2004 Kerry and Edwards were making campaign stops in Colorado and New Mexico Saturday on the train portion of their 'Believe in America' tour which is taking them to key Midwestern and western states with less than 100 days until the presidential election. REUTERS/Mike Segar US ELECTION
By Jill Zuckman a Tribune national correspondent
When he decided to replicate President Harry Truman's 1948 coast-to-coast whistle-stop tour, Sen. John Kerry told his staff that above all, he wanted to have fun.
Fun is not a word readily associated with Kerry, but after 15 days and 5,086 miles through 18 states, the Democratic nominee for president emerged as a happier, looser, more confident candidate.
Throughout his post-convention journey by bus, boat, train, helicopter and plane, Kerry found himself awed by the fervor of the crowds, the spirituality of a powwow, and the view of America through the romantic lens of a Pullman train car.
"It was beyond description, the beauty that we saw from that train and from the bus as we drove through these beautiful fields of America," Kerry told people gathered at California State University, Dominguez Hills on Thursday. "We saw the land, the power of the land. We saw America at its best."...
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