Word: mc
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...took long-haired kids, campus riots, Gene McCarthy and finally George Mc-Govern to force Richard Nixon to come out and opt for finally ending...
...delineate the proportions of Richard Nixon's political and personal triumph. By the end of the comparatively brief Election Night a few hours later, the President had all but 17 of the nation's 538 electoral votes, taking 49 states with 60.7% of the vote, v. 37.7% for George Mc-Govern. It was the greatest popular vote for a President in the nation's history (see box, opposite...
...party bloodbath so soon after the electoral massacre. Westwood, moreover, is playing her own brand of survival politics. Rather than stacking key party posts with McGovernites, she has been appointing people from other sections of the party. Because she was shut out of any major role in the Mc-Govern campaign, she has had time to do a little work for herself. Thus her travels to see Wallace and other Southern Governors. Reminding people that she managed Humphrey's campaign in Utah in 1968, she insists: "I have run coalition politics in my own state...
...recaptured. Said Muskie after the election: "We've got to assure working-class Americans as well as poor Americans that their concerns are high in our priorities." For the past few years, however, the Democratic Party has been drifting away from its moorings among blue-collar workers; Mc-Govern's candidacy simply speeded up the flight. The intellectuals who plan party strategy and the lesser lights who are supposed to carry it out have become mistrustful of each other. It will take skillful brokerage by party professionals to make peace between the two hostile camps if the Democrats...
...abortion, amnesty, marijuana. "Unfortunately for the country, there were a lot of nonissues in this campaign," Kennedy told TIME on Election Night, "and the Republicans were able to capitalize on them." Loyally refusing to accept the massive defeat as a rejection of Democratic Party philosophy, Kennedy gives George Mc-Govern credit for "plowing lots of new ground in this campaign. As in the case of Adlai Stevenson, McGovern may well have pointed to a direction in which this country will move in the years to come...