Word: democratics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Moreover, I have come to believe that the only chance, however small, for the American Left to have any impact is to run on its most visionary blueprints in Democratic Party primaries from precinct to President. If the primary is lost, then support goes to the winning Democrat...
This is not a plan to "wreck" the Democratic Party. That is, no rule or ruin. No running on a third-party ticket if you lose in the primaries. Two things are required to remain a good Democrat--to register, and to support the candidate selected by the primary, Ideological credentials are not required, and revolutionary Democrats would work to keep it that way. Loyalty to the party would be essential. If anyone is going to bolt, let it be the fat cats...
FRESHMEN LIVING IN Harvard Yard don't slam their doors on the Nixon canvassers that come to talk with them. But the Nixon canvassers soft that a strong McGovern Democrat can answer their questions and watch them leave without ever realizing that the interviewers were Nixon workers...
...Companies that profit from strip-mining operations in West Virginia are locked in a money battle with environmentalists. The miners are contributing to the re-election campaign of Republican Governor Arch Moore, and the opponents of strip-mining are giving to the campaign of Democrat John D. Rockefeller IV. One strip-mine operator concedes that the strippers have also accumulated $150,000 for the campaigns of state legislators who side with them. Laws to abolish this kind of mining are pending in the legislature...
...nonpayment of taxes). Bending elbows and ears at the festivities were some 1,000 friends and customers, including Secretary of State William P. Rogers, Ed Sullivan, Rocky Graziano, Frank Gifford, W. Averell Harriman, and Larry O'Brien (who held up a T shirt emblazoned: I'M A DEMOCRAT-DONT BUG ME). "Hello, Big John!" Toots roared as he bussed fellow Restaurateur Jack Dempsey. The former champion answered with a playful right to the jaw. Said one guest as the mid-afternoon party neared midnight: "I'll probably be here for breakfast...