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...Your article on George McGovern had an overall tone of "Who does he think he is?" Are Americans so obsessed with maintaining material wealth and so fearful of changing social attitudes that they are afraid of this mild South Dakotan? My guess is that we are ready for a change. Wallace supporters would agree that Government needs a "shakeup" and needs to be made more responsive to the average citizen. We need a new new deal...
...road to Miami Beach. Then last week the Democratic Party's Credentials Committee voted to deprive McGovern of 151 of the 271 delegates he had captured in California's winner-take-all primary last month. Instead of having a virtually unbeatable first-ballot arsenal, the South Dakotan suddenly had his delegate strength pared, at least for the present, down to well below 1,300 -far short of the 1,509 needed for nomination. Suddenly Hubert Humphrey was politically alive again. So, for that matter, were Edmund Muskie and any number of dark horses. What had promised...
...conducting a somewhat earthier campaign. Of all the possible Democratic nominees, the Republicans regard George McGovern as the most vulnerable. Says White House Political Adviser Harry Dent: "Some people around here are about to wee-wee in their pants waiting for him to get the nomination." If the South Dakotan succeeds, the President's outriders will portray McGovern as a dangerous radical bent on emasculating the Pentagon and the free-enterprise system, legalizing marijuana and abortion, abandoning U.S. commitments in Viet Nam and around the world...
...White House aide admits, "We don't have an Eisenhower around here any more." The President, as he knows despite his reading in the polls, cannot bank very much on sheer personal appeal. But neither can George McGovern-if McGovern is the nominee. If the South Dakotan loses next week in Miami Beach, with the attendant possibility that his insurgents will bolt the party or hopelessly divide it, then the Republicans will still have good cause- perhaps even better cause-to face November with confidence...
What did that mean? That he meant to signal McGovern that he was available for second spot? If so, Kennedy might simply have called the South Dakotan or sent word through countless available intermediaries. That his own thinking on the entire subject remains ambivalent and imprecise? Perhaps. But presumably, if Kennedy would run for Vice President in order to ensure a Democratic victory in November, he would also run for President on the same grounds. Kennedy did not clarify matters when he said: "I would not exclude all possibilities...