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...Democratic Administrations, survived the virtually unbeatable heroic appeal and victories of Dwight Eisenhower, and regrouped to elect John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson. Severely split by the riotous Chicago convention in 1968, it began to reunite in the last weeks of that campaign and fell just short of putting Hubert Humphrey in the White House. But in 1972, while the coalition held much of its strength in electing Democrats to Congress and the statehouses, it came completely apart at the seams in the presidential election...
...early as the Nebraska primary, Issues Director Ted Van Dyk says now, when McGovern's Democratic opponents "went after him on the triple-A issues" ?abortion, amnesty and acid. McGovern was soon trying to disengage himself. Even his defense programs were "clarified." Then in the California debates with Hubert Humphrey, McGovern was forced to admit that he did not know exactly what his ill-starred $1,000-grant-to-every-citizen would cost. When he later came up with a more cogent program, he dismissed the "Demogrant" idea as something he had never really supported. Instead of shaking...
...groups the McGovernites had antagonized: labor, white ethnics, the South. "Nixon would have been beaten by someone who could have held the grand coalition together," said Henry Jackson in a postmortem. "How could any one candidate alienate labor, the religious groups, the South and others in one election?" Adds Hubert Humphrey: "We don't need to indulge in a massive purge in the party, but the leadership must be closely related by word and deed to the working people, to the small town, Main Street people and the man in the shops. Unless we become acceptable to this middle...
...second half action a Lynch interception and two dazzling explosions by Brown halfback Hubert Morgan put the contest out of reach for Harvard...
...Alioto believes that he has been through the worst of it. As enthusiastic and outgoing as ever, the bull-shouldered son of a Sicilian-born fisherman hopes that his political fortunes are back where they were in 1968, when he delivered the nominating speech for Presidential Candidate Hubert Humphrey, was briefly considered for the vice-presidential nomination and was widely regarded as one of the party's rising new talents. "I don't come from a wailing tradition," Alioto says. "We take life as it is. It is a tough life, and we know it is. They have...