Word: lucey
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...floor strategy. The candidate had issued one vital order: the floor leaders for the fight should not all be youthful members of McGovern's own staff but battle-tested convention veterans. Among the 23 chosen were Senators Frank Church, Fred Harris, Abraham Ribicoff and Gaylord Nelson, Wisconsin Governor Pat Lucey, South Dakota Lieutenant Governor William Dougherty, and Hart and Frank Mankiewicz...
...series of meetings next day, some 25 new possibilities were suggested, including three blacks and several women. The list was pared to Lawrence O'Brien, Sargent Shriver, Kevin White, Wisconsin Governor Pat Lucey, Connecticut Senator Abraham Ribicoff, Minnesota Senator Walter Mondale and Missouri Senator Tom Eagleton. McGovern was looking for a man who had identification with urban affairs, ability, the stature to assume the presidency, and a national rather than a regional appeal. Catholicism was understood to be helpful, if not vital...
...positions. On the eve of the California primary, McGovern went to the Democratic Governors conference in Houston, where he found the initial mood chilly and depressed. When 30 Governors at that meeting were asked whether McGovern could carry their states, only three raised their hands -Wisconsin's Pat Lucey, South Dakota's Richard Kneip and Minnesota's Wendell Anderson. McGovern listened to a barrage of complaints about the cascading number of delegate challenges being made by his supporters. "My God," said Nebraska's Jim Exon, "I endorsed you, and the McGovern people are trying to keep...
Democrats made law-and-order work for them in Wisconsin also by underlining the fact that Republicans were running the state when student violence erupted in Madison. Liberal Democrat Patrick Lucey, a longtime Kennedy ally and a former Lieutenant Governor, profited from vexation over rising property taxes. His opponent, Lieutenant Governor Jack Olson, promised to postpone state tax increases, but Republican Governor Warren Knowles torpedoed him in mid-campaign by announcing that a tax rise was inevitable...