Word: conventioneers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Democratic presidential candidate Jimmy Carter will pay his first post-convention visit to Boston this afternoon, sandwiching a domestic policy address at Boston College between two stops at an East Boston hotel.
Downstairs, one of the natty Reaganite interlopers, Howard Phillips '62, beckons me over to talk. Phillips, a bright and articulate man who helped found the Young Americans for Freedom shortly after leaving Harvard, is a former director of the Office of Economic Opportunity. He claims to have convinced Nixon to...
That had not seemed true when Ford issued his debate challenge at the Republican Convention in mid-August. Then Carter was far ahead in all the opinion polls and Ford seemed to be playing a desperate catch-up game. The President still trails, but much more narrowly. Yet for better...
Carter is confident of his ability to sound knowing on the issues; the press and public have been chewing on him for more than a year. He is a cool, collected performer. His speech at the Democratic Convention in July showed how much personal force lies behind the soft voice...
Now Moynihan must take on James Buckley, 53, completing his first term in the Senate. A casual, attractive conservative, Buckley's theme line is: "We must get the government off our backs and out of our pockets." He caused a flutter just before the Republican National Convention in Kansas...