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...forces went to bed, tired but very satisfied, remembering what David Brinkley had said in NBC's summation of the evening: "There are now three serious candidates for the Presidency in this country: Richard Nixon, Edmund Muskie and George McGovern." Even if it was unfair to Humphrey. Jackson and Lindsay, nobody was complaining. The next morning all would be on a plane on the way to Florida...
...dangerous hazard on the road that Democratic contenders have to travel to reach their party's nomination for President. The number of politicians still willing to speak out unequivocally against all antibusing moves was dwindling, but at least three persisted: Florida Governor Reubin Askew. New York Mayor John Lindsay and Connecticut Senator Abraham Ribicoff. Protested Ribicoff: "If politicians continue to fan blind passions, we are lost. Busing is not the issue at all. The basic issue is whether America is going to have apartheid. I don't think we can exist on that basis...
Meanwhile, Mayor John V. Lindsay of New York--engaged in his own battle with Senator George McGovern (D-S.D.) and representative Shirley Chisholm (D-N.Y.) for the state's liberal vote--dramatized yet two more national problems...
...Thursday, he led Miami on a "Murder Tour" of gun factories and shops while displaying a revolver that an aide had purchased with a borrowed credit card. Then, yesterday, he had himself photographed in front of an oil tanker while denouncing oil depreciation allowances. Lindsay spent Friday on a swing through Tampa and Jacksonville and returned to Miami today...
...sleeves, Lindsay also made repeated appearances on Miami television in a series of one minute commercials, offering himself to be electorate as a "fighter" rather than a "talker." But he nonetheless lost yesterday's round of the battle on the tube to Jackson, whose supporters bought up three half-hour slots to air their documentary entitled "a different kind of candidate...