Harold Ickes sweats the details.

In 1973, while working on the New York mayoral campaign of Bronx Borough President Herman Badillo, Ickes bit a man on the leg in a tussle over what Ickes considered a bad sound system.

In 1992, when Ickes was running the Democratic convention for Bill Clinton, he forced a guy to climb up into the rafters of Madison Square Garden with a large knife to cut the netting in case the balloons did not drop properly. The Secret Service nearly shot the gu ...

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