Word: mcgovernment
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...platform. The document agreed upon by the 153-member drafting committee was a monument to sweet unity. At 15,000 words it was half the size of the 1972 model. Missing were provocative stands on homosexuals' rights, abortion, school busing and legalization of pot that helped undermine George McGovern four years ago. The surviving planks were carefully planed, with the consent of all the factions represented, to fit Carter's design. The finished product is undramatic, but has the virtue of being offensive to few and acceptable to many...
...George McGovern suggested to the Carter staff last week that he would be available to act as a unifier on behalf of the Carter candidacy. McGovern may well give a major speech, stressing the rally-round-Carter theme, at or just before the Democratic Convention. In the days ahead, when Carter meets with former foes, he will probably renew the pledge he made when George Wallace phoned him to bury the hatchet at 2 a.m. last Wednesday: "George, I'll make you the best President this country ever had." Even in the flush of victory, that was quite a statement...
...course, is the orbiting presidential candidacy of Jimmy Carter. How America's Jews are going to respond to him has been of concern for Carter campaign strategists. They are troubled by the specter of 1972, when Jews-like other traditional Democrats-deserted Democratic Presidential Nominee George McGovern in droves. Instead of polling over 80% of the Jewish vote, as John Kennedy (1960) and Hubert Humphrey (1968) did, and 90%, as Lyndon Johnson (1964) did, McGovern cornered only around...
Carter's goal, if he wins the nomination, is to receive the nearly unanimous Jewish vote that Democrats had enjoyed until the McGovern debacle. This may not be an easy task. Although Ford and Kissinger have been criticized by U.S. Jews for pressuring Israel to make concessions to the Arabs, Ford has also backed massive aid for the Israelis ($4.5 billion in two years). Notes Harvard Political Scientist Nadav Safran, himself a Cairo-born Jew: "If Ford modulates his position vis-a-vis Israel a bit, the vote in November would be divided. Carter would still get the majority...
There is a new and deep concern this year about the historically haphazard way in which the vice-presidential nominees are chosen-after George McGovern's 1972 fiasco with Senator Tom Eagleton, after the resignation of Spiro Agnew, after the ascension of unelected Gerald Ford. A study on the subject, released this week by Harvard's Kennedy Institute, maintained that "the present selection practices contain an inherent and unacceptable degree of risk." The odds are now 1 to 2, the study judges, that the Vice President will one day become President...