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...think for those of us who believed in George McGovern, supported him and worked for him, he has still gained a victory. He taught us knowledge of the issues, he showed us that understanding goes a long way, and he gave us a glimmer of hope that change was and is possible. Thank you, Senator, and in 1976 we will try again, remembering what you've taught...
...McGovern's top aides, Frank Mankiewicz, uttered the same alibis; he agreed that while the election "was tough before Eagleton, it certainly wasn't winnable after the Eagleton affair." Yet he had seen a glimmer of hope as the Republican-corruption issue "started to move pretty hard" about ten days before the election. "And then a day later, there was Henry [Kissinger] on the tube with peace, and the corruption thing died-bang...
...that Britain move all of its troops out of Catholic neighborhoods immediately and withdraw all soldiers from Northern Ireland by Jan. 1, 1975-conditions that Whitelaw described as "unacceptable"-thft negotiations were expected to continue. The end of the truce also quashed, at least for the time being, this glimmer of hope for an eventual reconciliation. Whitelaw's announcement of the discussions infuriated Ulster's Protestants, not simply because he had negotiated with the Catholic terrorists, but also because he had previously said that he would...
...dismissed as "arrogant and illogical" the more limited Nixon proposal of May 8, which calls for an in-place ceasefire, a release of all American prisoners in return for a U.S. withdrawal within four months, and an end of acts of war by the U.S. in Indochina. One glimmer of movement was a remark by Xuan Thuy. He suggested that while the Communists still wanted to oust Thieu, the shape of Saigon's political future might be left-as the U.S. has proposed-to later negotiations between the two Viet Nams. Then, at week...
...They were clearly a better team, but there was no reason for us to be out of the game. We had hoped to plan the way we did in the second half of the UMass game, our first glimmer of hope, but we didn't play that way at all." Green added...