Word: mcgovernment
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pallid, shortened imitation of Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail, 1972, but lacks that book's hard political reporting. That's probably because Jimmy Carter and his staff were pretty unwilling to share what was on their minds with reporters, or at least less willing than George McGovern was in 1972. That's the trouble with a news event--when there's no news, you go visit the leper colony to dig up some protagonist's great aunt. It's not that Reeves is not a good reporter--he is--but just that there was not that much...
...course title-U4830Y, American Foreign Policy, 1945-1975-sounded ordinary enough, but the auditorium was S.R.O. at Columbia University last week. Reason: George McGovern was teaching again for the first time since he left his podium at Dakota Wesleyan University in 1953. His first lecture was about the role of Congress in foreign policy, but the Senator from South Dakota found that all the students' questions were on the subject of Viet Nam. Which was understandable enough. Said he: "Viet Nam has been the dominant factor of American life for the past 15 years. It would be a strange...
...integrity had not been in question. Said the Senator: "I thought you were the wrong man for the wrong position." Indiana Democrat Birch Bayh told Sorensen that some people were out to get him "because they don't want a clean broom at the CIA." Senator George McGovern emerged from the audience to remark that the episode showed that the "ghost of Joe McCarthy still stalks the land." Committee Chairman Dan Inouye, who opposed the nomination, said that he hoped Sorensen would leave with no "bitterness...
...lost elections in Boston. Republican Senator Edward Brooke carried the city over his Democratic opponent in '72 because he was an incumbent running against an ineffectual party hack. Then Congresswoman Louise Day Hicks lost her seat to independent John Moakley who immediately returned to the Democratic Party. Even George McGovern carried Boston...
...Dean Acheson's law firm . . . Joined McNamara's Pentagon in 1966, became Assistant Secretary for International Security . . . Had "misgivings about Viet Nam" from the start, considered quitting after Tet '68 but decided to work within to halt bombings, open negotiations . . . Was "very firmly aligned" with George McGovern's defense policies in 1972 ... Calls for reduced arms sales abroad, tighter controls on nuclear proliferation . . . After hearing Warnke's plan for deeply cutting defense spending, Carter told him that he sounded like an "antiDefense Secretary...