Word: mcgovern
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...candidates and Presidents do it? "Most of it is done to accommodate the photographers," Democrat Hubert Humphrey frankly told the committee. "We want the pictures showing all those hands reaching out." But, he said, "it is not necessary." Democratic Senator George McGovern saw three reasons why such touring is so popular...
What should be done to reduce the risk? McGovern suggested that a dialogue between President and people could better be accomplished by give-and-take discussions with community groups in more easily protected auditoriums. He urged more television debates and press conferences. Goldwater said simply: "I want my President to stay in the White House...
...Harrington, on the other hand, does not even seem willing to commit himself to a broad program for the redistribution of wealth. He doesn't buy the theory that George McGovern would have won more votes in 1972 if he had stuck to his proposals to tax 50% of all inherited wealth over $500,000 and to guarantee a minimum income to every American citizen. "My friends in the trade unions," he says, "told me that the reaction of their members had been, 'You mean if I win the lottery, that bastard is gonna take it all away...
...McGovern's proposals were badly thought out and perhaps poorly presented. But for a socialist to say, "you see, this is the way things are, this is the state of the working class consciousness, and to suggest a radical program of income redistribution is sectarian and self-defeating," pushes socialist thought back about a century--when many radicals sat back and waited for the inexorable march of history to effect change in society...
...mind out to pasture. But here was my grandmother, who thought I was an expert on these political things because I always agreed with her at the dining room table while all the aunts and uncles were grinning and clucking about how silly an old lady can get sometime, McGovern indeed! I told her that the Democrats were on the right track...