Word: mcgovern
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...disarrayed Democrats off their feet. The one major flaw in the theory is that no one has yet come up with a plausible name. Some Democrats believe that Senator Edward Kennedy might be persuaded to accept a draft; others keep hoping for Senators Edmund Muskie, Hubert Humphrey or even McGovern; still others yearn for a genuinely fresh face and a fresh start for the party. But for the moment, at least, Jackson is out front and going for broke. For the present, as never before in recent times, the rest of the field is clear. Says California Democratic Pro Bill...
...book. Most important, Levison is decisive on a central matter: is the present-day working class potentially revolutionary or only potentially liberal? Ultimately, Levison says liberal in the short run and perhaps socialist and revolutionary in the long run. This point is significant, because Levison is a McGovern liberal, and through the book's serialization in The New Yorker it might come to have high currency among the middle-class Left. As a whole. Levison attempts to provide the basis for a worker-affluent liberal alliance; his advocacy of socialism as the completion of American democracy shows the response...
...Senator George McGovern has proposed a total inheritance tax to end concentrations of wealth such as your family's. What is your feeling...
...make a comment first. Mr. McGovern spent close to $1.80 per person in his state in his campaign. My highest expenditure in New York was 370 per person. I don't think that Mr. McGovern really, when he gets back to Congress, is going to propose a bill to carry that...
...None of this would have happened if Nixon hadn't resigned," Handlin comments, "but even McGovern would be better than...