Word: mcgovern
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...speech contained nothing of substance that he had not said before, but the wording was more emphatic and the setting, of course, national. Thus he struck many as a bit further to the left than he had been, though he is still some way from the party's McGovern wing. He promised the poor that he would seek jobs for "anyone able to work"?a traditional enough Democratic pledge. Carter also sounded several populist notes that jolted many voters and undoubtedly will change their perceptions of him. He spoke of a "political and economic elite" that can "always manage...
...Kennedy. There are only seven or eight real liberals in the Senate. Me, Kennedy, Humphrey, and a few others." McGovern? we asked. "Yeah. McGovern too. And [Sen. Mike] Gravel [D.-Alaska]. But the country is very conservative right now. Don't you think so?" Who did he think would win the Democratic nomination for president in 1972, we asked. "Senator Humphrey, I hope...
...endorsement for re-election which he would receive handily. Presidential candidate Humphrey was not so lucky. In his home state he received barely 51 per cent of the delegates headed to Miami, compared with 49 per cent committed to a liberal coalition of Chisholm-Lindsay-McCarthy-McGovern. Differences over the war, amnesty, gay rights, marijuana, abortion and a dozen other issues left the DFL with an unfortunate pattern of internal rifts that would be repeated nationally...
...next time I saw Mondale he was standing in front of a television camera at the 1972 National Democratic Convention. McGovern had locked up the nomination, and Humphrey had his arm around "Fritz" recommending him as a future leader of national stature to Walter Cronkite and the nation. As Humphrey spoke, Mondale stood there quietly, somber and earnest...
...convention. "Those big liberal issues are done, they are accomplished. There are no problems with sex, with color," he says. Hay, who hails from Pennsylvania Dutch country, said he had talked about the liberal absence with his delegations, and many agreed that "we are seeing the fruits of the McGovern push in 1972. The party has realized that you'd better open up or you don't exist." Into that vacuum of battles won stepped Carter, and like many liberals of Hay's nature, he says, "Carter...