Word: governed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Riesman, the whole question is simply an illustration of how Mc-Govern comes across to the voters...
Nixonians generally are against wage and price controls in principle. But in practice they are not so sure. Mc-Govern's economics, they agree, would be disastrous, especially the Senator's proposals to tax capital gains as regular income. Welfare arouses even more emotion?against it. A retired Floridian summed up the Nixonian attitude: "Give 'em a shovel...
...unhappy choice." With Nixon representing the Republican right and McGovern the Democratic left, Kraft observed, there are "no good options. The middle ground of American politics has been torn to tatters." Moreover, he added, McGovern's "performance in the campaign continues to raise questions about his capacity to govern." New York Times Columnist Tom Wicker, a Nixon critic of long standing, has not been quite so stern, but he called attention last week to "a long McGovern summer of fumbles and foolishness...
...Darkness himself. In its way, Mc-Govern's campaign will be oldfashioned, searching back to the founding fathers for mottoes with which to face the future. And if it goes as the McGovern strategists believe it will go, the campaign will be a spiritual adventure...
...McGOVERN DEMOCRATS. The Senator's strong stand on ending the Viet Nam War remains the most binding issue among his supporters. Surprisingly, however, half of Mc-Govern's backers think that the Senator's own promised timetable for ending the war is impractical. Gerald Cooper, a Kenosha, Wis., schoolteacher, staunchly supports McGovern's antiwar position but says: "I don't know if he can end the war within 90 days. I'd like to see him try it, but I would give him a year...