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...Metaissue." "People are very much searching for someone they can believe in," observes Joe Grandmaison, the 1972 McGovern campaign director in New Hampshire. This quest puts a new emphasis on intangible qualities of leadership. Contends George Reedy, the astute former press secretary to Lyndon Johnson: "The real issues in the campaign are spiritual rather than economic and social. The average American today is lost. He doesn't know what to believe, where to go, what to do." Marquette University Sociologist Wayne Youngquist calls these spiritual concerns collectively a "metaissue-an issue above issues. It involves tone, honesty, decency, truthfulness...
...Grandmaison also works on a freelance basis as a political commentator for WBZ Radio-TV in Boston, a job he said he will relinquish if he runs for Congress...
William Alber, news director of WBZ radio, said yesterday that he knew nothing of Grandmaison's possible candidacy, but "in the advent he becomes a candidate, obviously he will have to resign his job here...
Staffers in Cleveland's Washington office said yesterday Cleveland does not know who his opponent will be. "All we know is what we read in the newspapers. We've heard Grandmaison is a likely candidate," Lee Kidder, Cleveland's legislative assistant said...
...Grandmaison came to the Institute of Politics after managing Gov. Michael S. Dukakis's successful gubernatorial campaign in 1974. He was also a staffer in Sen. George S. McGovern's (D-S.D.) 1972 presidential campaign...