Word: hooding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Despite his nebulous and often contradictory position on foreign policy, in his hard hitting domestic program, he successfully reconciles McGovern the idealist and McGovern, the pragmatist. Campaigning under the lincoln green banner of Robin Hood, he proposes a tax system to "take from the rich and give to the poor" and does everything but call President Nixon the Sheriff of Nottingham. His program includes excess profits tax, an end to oil depletion allowances, a realistic minimum income tax, an increased tax on millionaires, and better consumer protection...
...stand on issues has been consistently bold, if occassionally contradictory, and the idealism of his Robin Hood program does not blind him to the reality of human greed...
McGovern--in a speech which could aptly be entitled "The Robin Hood Address"--denounced the inequality in income distribution in the U.S. and proposed a domestic program for a "general reordering of the nation's tax structure...
...think perhaps it's time to read again the story of Robin Hood who, in the tradition of Sherwood Forest took from the rich and gave to the poor," McGovern mused...
...this was no ordinary thief. Eight days after the robbery, the phone rang in the office of Walter Schwilden. an editor at Brussels' Le Soir. The caller identified himself as Till Eulenspiegel, the legendary German counterpart of Robin Hood. Till declared that he wanted nothing for himself. He demanded a ransom of $4,000,000, paid to a relief organization for East Pakistan refugees...