Word: caucuses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...formal announcement is when you do it in the Senate caucus room with your family at your side. I don't know what to call this one." With this characteristic bit of mock diffidence, Minnesota's Eugene J. McCarthy revealed at a Boston news conference late last week that he was-"de facto, de jure"-again a candidate for the presidency. The poet, professor and paladin of politics also confirmed that he had assented to the establishment of a McCarthy-for-President committee in Massachusetts...
...meetings have been quiet, some of them almost secret. The participants have included virtually every important black leader in the U.S., among them Julian Bond, Carl Stokes, Charles Evers, Jesse Jackson, Poet Imamu Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones) and the 13 members of the black caucus in Congress. The purpose: to develop a black political strategy for 1972, especially in order to influence the selection of a Democratic presidential nominee. But after more than half a dozen meetings-most recently a full-scale conference of black elected officials held in Washington -that strategy is still to be defined...
Scrappy Note. Michigan Congressman John Conyers Jr. and several other members of the congressional black caucus favored running a single black candidate in the Democratic primaries. If a black presidential contender won some or all of the delegates in several states, that would both swell black strength at the convention and withhold some black votes from white candidates during the primary scramble. The Conyers group's choice for the national candidate: former Cleveland Mayor Carl Stokes...
McCarthy has agreed to withdraw from the Massachusetts primary if he does not win the caucus's endorsement, Schaeffer said, because he thinks such a move is necessary to prevent fragmentation...
...Angeles Mayor Samuel Yorty also has volunteered to come to the caucus, Schaeffer said, but Senator Edward M. Kennedy '54 (D.-Mass.) has refused to participate. Rep. Robert Drinan (D.-Mass.) will be the caucus keynote speaker...