Word: lindsays
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Chisholm will have to work hard to prove her point. Black politicians and women's groups are far from united behind her candidacy; George McGovern and John Lindsay are competing for the same liberal constituency; and she has neither financial nor organizational resources to make a serious fight. Chisholm has no illusions; there is already talk of the No. 2 spot on the ticket, or of perhaps even mayor of New York City in 1973. Whatever happens, her bravado is impressive. "Thirty-six or more persons have been President of these United States," she said last week. "Experientially...
...Delaware. Humphrey's purported strength with organized labor is hard to locate; in New Jersey and New York, says one New Jersey county chairman, Humphrey "hardly shows." That leaves George McGovern in second place in the East-a distant second, to be sure, but far ahead of Lindsay, McCarthy and Chisholm. To Democratic politicians, Muskie's strengths are that he has made few enemies and that he simply looks like a winner...
Ever the epithet king, Loeb lumps "Moscow Muskie," McGovern and John Lindsay together as "leftwing kooks." Richard Nixon, whom Loeb supported in 1960 and 1968, has become a "foul ball" and "the great devaluator." The rupture with Nixon came over the impending China visit. Nixon, says Loeb, "has devalued our chances of victory against the Communists by cuddling up to the Chinese Reds and the killers in the Kremlin." He calls Henry Kissinger "a tool of the Communist conspiracy." A Loeb editorial warns that "another four years of Nixon could only be considered a calamity for the nation." Conservative Republican...
...military spending, his actions speak for themselves. And his recent proposal coupling wide-ranging tax reform with a direct redistribution of income to the people at the lower income levels speak very clearly to the question of distribution of wealth. This is not to say that Lindsay and McCarthy have not attacked similar problems. Lindsay, for example, has criticized "Washington" for "killing a day care program for 30 million working mothers" while "giving away four billion dollars a year to big corporations." And McCarthy has directed attacks against the centrist political structure for eliminating many questions from consideration...
Working and voting for left-of-center candidates within the Democratic Party is certainly not sufficient to bring about change. But it is necessary. For McGovern, McCarthy and Lindsay have all shown a willingness to challenge the centrist thesis at the polls, which is precisely where it has to be disproven. The nomination and election of any one of them would represent only one step. Independent organizations built around specific issues will still be necessary. But a victory by one of these candidates could substantially alter the shape of American politics and bring us a lot closer to the achievement...