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Moreover, by late August, when black pols were woodshedding around the country to assess their situations and map strategy for the coming campaigns, the honeymoon of the marriage between blacks and McGovern was unquestionably over. Louis Stokes expressed the feeling of many: "We've been screwed again...
...Nixon is a poor campaigner whose defects may well become more apparent if he is tempted into the sort of mano a mano "crisis" crusading that he has always professed to be his style. Last week as George McGovern took a brief breather to rethink his campaign strategy and assess his finances, the President defied advice and came out politicking-but only part way. He confined his campaigning to carefully screened groups-ethnics and the Republican faithful. Every step of the way was meticulously planned...
LATE IN THE PRIMARIES there was rumination on the columnists' collective inability to assess McGovern's strengths and the dedication of his constituency; the dawning sense that the political tour guides had themselves missed the boat led to hasty attempts to clamber aboard during convention time, with excessive praise for the sharp young technocrats of the McGovern staff. Then, having at last paid their dues to McGovern, the columnists could sound objective as they announced a coming Nixon landslide and scolded the post-Eagleton McGovern for not living up to the conventiontime notices on his efficient and pragmatic organization...
TIME's James Willwerth, who covered the riot, returned to assess conditions today. His report...
...discover it. The increasing industrialization of the U.S. has made moving easy, sometimes desirable and often necessary; thus the U.S. has long been a highly fluid society. That fact has been reported before, but only in bits and pieces. Packard is the first to fit the pieces together and assess their meaning...