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Humphrey "went after McGovern in a far tougher way than would ordinarily be his style...[and] McGovern was surprised," commented Ted Van Dyk, who advised Humphrey on issues in 1968 and did the same for McGovern after the 1972 convention. "Were we in the same position as Humphrey, had it been our last chance, we probably would have attacked his record on Vietnam," he said...
...ADVICE of politicians and politically-minded aides played a key role in the final decision to drop the negative income tax. From inside the campaign, McGovern was being urged to drop the plan by Van Dyk and Paul Offner, a former aide to Senator Gaylord Nelson who joined the campaign to work on economic issues in mid-August. Offner believes that, until he brought it to their attention, McGovern and Weil had not considered the fact that the plan would put a third of the nation "on welfare", though Weil denies this...
Growing Up. A few of the McGovernites were in Strauss's corner to begin with; others are now coming around. Says Ted Van Dyk, who formulated issues for McGovern: "Strauss means it when he says that he's no ideologue. He's uncomfortable when discussion gets beyond the fact that it's better to elect a Democrat than a Republican." Reflecting on the Strauss victory, Journalist Stephen Schlesinger, son of Historian Arthur remarks: "Maybe the most important story here is that the McGovernites have grown up. A few months ago, we would have been wailing over...
...direction, if not its soul." Throughout the meticulously planned primaries, McGovern had seemingly remained his own man, stubbornly glued on his own course and vindicated by the thumping first-ballot victory in Miami Beach. Yet trouble had begun as early as the Nebraska primary, Issues Director Ted Van Dyk says now, when McGovern's Democratic opponents "went after him on the triple-A issues" ?abortion, amnesty and acid. McGovern was soon trying to disengage himself. Even his defense programs were "clarified." Then in the California debates with Hubert Humphrey, McGovern was forced to admit that he did not know...
MCGOVERN plans to do well where he thinks he can-Ohio, Michigan, Nebraska-and play a dramatic end game with victories in Oregon, California and New York. "It's the classic underdog strategy," says Ted Van Dyk, a former Humphrey aide who is now a McGovern adviser. "It's also General Giap's battle plan. You concentrate your forces at the point of the enemy's weakness. You pick your battlegrounds." That has led him, wisely and conveniently, to stay out of Southern contests that could have set him back...