Word: gardener
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Democratic National Convention last week resembled nothing so much as a revivalist camp meeting, slickly managed, free of controversy and filled with love and compassion. More than 5,000 delegates and alternates milled around the crowded floor of New York's Madison Square Garden in a festive and forgiving mood. They even cheered Chicago Mayor Richard Daley and the memory of President Lyndon Johnson, both of whom not long ago were reviled symbols of the party's crippling dissensions in 1968 and 1972. Then, in a genuine spirit of unity, the delegates garlanded Jimmy Carter with the Democratic presidential nomination...
...scantily clad young women strolled the sidewalks a few blocks from New York's Madison Square Garden, eying the men passing by and uttering an inviting "Hi!" They were posing as prostitutes, trying to get arrested in order to stir a protest against the city's new antiloitering law. But two streetwise cops caught the ploy. "They didn't have the moves," scoffed...
Amid the peaceful aura emanating from the 1976 Democratic National Convention in a sometimes bloody boxing and hockey arena transformed into a political Garden of Eden, there was no way to incite a fight over anything. The fiery war issues of 1968 and 1972 seemed ancient history; the countercultural revolution had turned passe. The Democratic Party was both luxuriating in and seeming a bit bored and stifled by its newfound h-a-a-a-r-m-o-n-y. Complained California Political Consultant Don Bradley, "All this sweetness and light turns my stomach...
Were there tensions between the emerging Carter and departing Kennedy clans? If so, both parties worked to smooth them over. As the Senator said kind words about the candidate in a Walter Cronkite interview, Carter placed a call to the CBS booth in the Garden. "Hello," said Carter to Kennedy. "I just watched you. I appreciate the things you said. I look forward to working closely with you in the election. I value your judgment and advice very, very much." Pleased by Kennedy's promise of support. Carter replaced the receiver. The call may have symbolized a significant moment...
...convention's last day, there were some tears in the Garden during the poignant, if a bit bizarre vice-presidential nomination of Fritz Efaw, 29, who had avoided the Viet Nam draft by living in exile in London. Seconded by Ron Kovic, a paraplegic casualty of the war ("I am the living dead"), Efaw made a plea for a broad amnesty for all Viet Nam service evaders before withdrawing his name...