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Higonnet had even more going for him. His conservative politics pleased Handlin and the other Americanists. His ignorance of Germany satisfied Ford. The departmental chores he had performed softened up everybody. And the coup de grace: his father, a French inventor, had helped Stern's chief backer, David Landes, gain admittance to a number of important French archives. Higonnet was in the right place at the right time. The Department united behind him, and the President confirmed the appointment...
SIMILARLY, the United Auto Workers Union finds McGovern far from odious. An article in the Detroit Free Press last Friday reported that United Auto Workers Vice President Olga Madar recently spoke in McGovern's behalf at a reception for Victor Reuther, retired UAW official and backer of the Senator. She said that UAW Vice Presidents Douglas Fraser and Irving Bluestone and Secretary-Treasurer Emil Mazey "will be in there actively compaigning" for McGovern...
...with the House Democrats who endorsed, 144 to 58, by far the most stringent antiwar resolution ever to get anywhere on that side of the Capitol. (The House has always been more hawkish than the Senate.) Even Ways and Means Chairman Wilbur Mills of Arkansas, long a tacit Administration backer on Viet Nam, proclaimed: "It's high time we got out of there...
Arriving in the midst of the ITT affair, an article in LIFE last week raised still more questions about the relationship between the Nixon Administration and some of its wealthy political backers. The central figure in the story was San Diego Millionaire C. Arnholt Smith, a longtime Nixon backer. Smith was under investigation in 1970 for possible violations of federal law by channeling campaign contributions to Nixon in 1968. LIFE charged that through the White House, the Justice Department and the Internal Revenue Service, the Administration tried to squelch investigations, delay prosecutions and interfere with cases involving Smith, another major...
...Woman. Only one surprise occurred. John Frank, a party leader for more than 20 years, came up for routine selection as an uncommitted delegate. McGovern's supporters noticed that there were no women among the uncommitted within the delegation. A McGovern backer managed to turn on the microphone to call out "Nominate a woman!" A name was shou ed, nominated in place of Frank, and the woman was elected as an uncommitted delegate. Ironically, Frank had drawn up the rules under which he was ousted...