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MIAMI BEACH--The transformation which by late yesterday had turned the Doral from a plush resort hotel to Senator George McGovern's frantic campaign headquarters began here Saturday...
...press conference immediately following his arrival. McGovern told reporters at the Doral there could be no compromise on the California challenge which threatens 151 of his delegates. "The American sense of fair play and rule of law are now in the hands of delegates," he said, but he also said he was confident that he would...
Sunday night, the McGovern staff poured into the Doral Hotel for yet another staff meeting, and a late reading on the programs made that day. It became difficult to get elevators, and when they came they were filled with McGovern staffers who wore white staff buttons, good only for the mezzanine operations room, and the coveted red staff buttons which get you onto the 16th floor...
Throughout Sunday night and yesterday, McGovern volunteers were left to mimeograph, find and call. Onlookers milled in the brilliantly lit lobby of the Doral admist the fake Louis XIV furniture, and the McGovern staff, high stop the green glass flanks of the hotel, directed the massive California effort which groped frantically through every bleached hotel lobby along the beach
Charisma. The trip and the big suites are no longer necessary for most of the contenders; the Doral is where the action will be. McGovern sweeps into Miami Beach counting on a first-ballot nomination, capping one of the most extraordinary success sagas in U.S. politics. The first to declare for the nomination, he was dismissed as a one-issue candidate, lacking charisma or recognition, a good Senator about to enact the Peter Principle by reaching for a role beyond him. But he had helped write the rules for the nominating process, and his young cadres knew...