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Los Angeles Mayor Sam Yorty, Indiana Senator Vance Hartke and House Ways and Means Chairman Wilbur Mills, a late-starting write-in entry, drew a total of 13% of the vote and little encouragement. On the Republican side, Congressmen Paul McCloskey (20%) and John Ashbrook (10%), attacking the President from...
So I walked up four blocks from the "Thrrriftee" Cleaners McGovern Headquarters to the firehouse that was the official polling place for Ward 10. Politics is a bad marriage; it treats those already won over like fools, and those to be won over like queens for a day. When they...
...five minutes worth of sound truck jibber. "Vance Hartke, author of such-and-such Vance Hartke, champion of civil rights. Vance Hartke, friend of the veteran," and so on. The name is strange to begin with, and upon repetition it starts to sound like a call to arms: vance hartkee' The senator arrived with his chesterfield coat, one wife and three of ten kids, two of whom seemed absorbed in a 7-up. The Hartke people all wore styrofoam skimmers and balloons, but the Senator seemed annoyed when one of the nats was put on his own head...
"Ladies and gentlemen, the next President of the United States." Silence fell on the room, and Hartke gingerly advanced from the shadows to address the gathering in the living room. "Why don't you folks move closer now, gather round, gather round." A few people shifted in response to Hartke...
Obviously unprepared for the occasion, Hartke started slowly. He sought to inspire his troops, and what could be more inspiring than stories of his south Indiana boyhood? Unfortunately, he could think of nothing. He told of his second-grade teacher, and by the time he started in on his high...