Word: humphrey
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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MCGOVERN plans to do well where he thinks he can-Ohio, Michigan, Nebraska-and play a dramatic end game with victories in Oregon, California and New York. "It's the classic underdog strategy," says Ted Van Dyk, a former Humphrey aide who is now a McGovern adviser. "It's also General Giap's battle plan. You concentrate your forces at the point of the enemy's weakness. You pick your battlegrounds." That has led him, wisely and conveniently, to stay out of Southern contests that could have set him back...
...irreverence, even downright disbelief. But George Stanley McGovern, 49, once an obscure prairie politician, has somehow struck a responsive chord in the voters; he is now ahead in the extraordinary testing of Democratic presidential postulants in 1972. With Muskie out of the race, McGovern's chief rival is Humphrey, the ever-ebullient 1968 nominee, a hardy perennial compared to the burgeoning McGovern. If his momentum holds, McGovern could well take the Democratic nomination; if it does not, and Humphrey becomes the candidate, the fierceness of McGovern's supporters could well mean a Democratic Party sundered more deeply than...
...Unlike Humphrey, say, or Wallace, 2 whose persons and prejudices are clear and familiar, McGovern remains a paradoxical figure. He is a very liberal...
Broad Horizon. Like Hubert Humphrey, McGovern grew up in a small town in South Dakota. His father was a Wesleyan Methodist minister in Mitchell (pop. 6,000). In a state where debating once ranked as football does in Ohio, or basketball in Indiana, young George took eagerly to oratory as a high school student. World War II broadened McGovern's horizons beyond the prairie: as pilot of Dakota Queen, a B-24 Liberator heavy bomber based in Cerignola, Italy, he flew 35 missions over Nazi-occupied Eastern Europe, often through heavy antiaircraft fire. Once, with two of the four...
...early-form charts on this election would have placed Basil Quirk, 48, an Irish Catholic longshoreman from South Boston, in the camp of Edmund Muskie, the Polish Catholic from Maine. Or perhaps Hubert Humphrey, who dotes on organized labor. Maybe even George Wallace, the sometime Horatio of the hardhats. Those charts have been proved wrong a number of times. Basil Quirk, boxing fan, father of five, proud owner of a three-decker in one of Boston's most solidly working-class areas, is a firm and enthusiastic-supporter of McGovern. Over a dinner of roast beef, baked potatoes, rolls...