Word: mc
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Last week, in a surprise news conference, Nixon casually dismissed Mc-Govern's corruption charges. "I think the responsible members of the Democratic Party will be turned off by this kind of campaigning," he said. "I am not going to dignify such comments." Politically he did not need...
...reasons; he was heading for bigger pickings at dinner in Los Angeles. To join him at the table, California fat cats shelled out even more than the New Yorkers-a cool $ 1.7 million. Bob Hope was on hand with bipartisan gibes: "Jack Benny is a Republican for Mc-Govern-but only until he gets the $1,000" and "McGovern called his own headquarters, and Clark MacGregor answered the phone." Nixon sounded a loftier note. "We will end the war," he said-an echo from the campaign four years ago. His administration would be remembered, he hoped, for "changing the world...
...Riesman, the whole question is simply an illustration of how Mc-Govern comes across to the voters...
Nixonians generally are against wage and price controls in principle. But in practice they are not so sure. Mc-Govern's economics, they agree, would be disastrous, especially the Senator's proposals to tax capital gains as regular income. Welfare arouses even more emotion?against it. A retired Floridian summed up the Nixonian attitude: "Give 'em a shovel...
...music, as homemade and homegrown as the assemblage that's the cover of their latest album. An encore is just icing. Yet, from last year, I knew their encore highlights their show. It's so theatrical--five minutes of screaming, shouting, chanting applause, with a personal attempt by the MC that finally brings them back, and into "El Tonto de Nadie, Regressa," 27 minutes that proves their musical expertise. The song is a montage of tempo changes, and a collage of guitar styles, blues, bluegrass, and pure country. Paul's lead guitar structures and organizes the piece. Timothy Schmit...