Word: mcgovern
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...announced in was Congressman Morris K. Udall of Arizona, 52, the brother of the former Secretary of the Interior and a tall, effective politician who appeals to the likes of George McGovern's 1972 constituency. The man who dropped out was Minnesota Senator Walter Mondale, 46, a Kennedyesque liberal who has spent a year in "exploratory" campaigning toward '76, traveling and speaking in 30 states. That experience, he said, had taught him that "I do not have the overwhelming desire to be President which is essential for the kind of campaign that is required." He had also discovered...
...writer is the "McGovern Republican " who upset Democratic Incumbent Frank E. Denholm...
Policy Planning. Despite pressure from members of the U.S. delegation in Rome-including Democratic Senators Hubert Humphrey, George McGovern and Richard Clark-Washington maintained its position that the conference is not "an aid-pledging forum" but a meeting to consider policy planning. After a week's silence, President Ford, citing inflation as an obstacle, turned down the delegation's request for an immediate 1 million ton increase in U.S. emergency food aid. Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz, who headed the American delegation, accused the three Senators of acting for "partisan political gain," while arguing that the U.S. was already...
...office in 1962; Republican Millicent Fenwick, 64, who gave up her post as director of the New Jersey State Division of Consumer Affairs to run for Congress; Democrat Gladys Spellman, 56, of Maryland, the first woman president of the National Association of Counties; Democrat Martha Keys, 44, of Kansas, McGovern campaign coordinator for Kansas in 1972 and sister-in-law of Colorado Senator-elect Gary Hart; and Republican Virginia Smith, 63, of Nebraska, a member of the board of the American Farm Bureau...
...burning issue, seemed barely to touch voter consciousness this time out. Four former P.O.W.s who ran for office each met with defeat. South Dakota Republican Leo K. Thorsness, a Medal of Honor holder who spent six years in a North Vietnamese P.O.W. camp, seemed to threaten Senator George McGovern at the outset, but faded as the campaign wore on. In California, 32-year-old Republican David Rehmann, six years a P.O.W., lost his bid for Congress to Santa Ana Mayor Jerry Patterson. In Georgia, Republican Quincy Collins, 43, an ex-Air Force colonel and a seven-year P.O.W., battled Democrat...