Word: mcgovernment
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Ford's camp quickly pointed out, leaders in December's polls do not always win nominations in the summer. Four years ago, for example, only 6% of Democratic voters backed George McGovern, yet the South Dakota Senator managed to win on the first ballot the following July. Still, Ford had the advantage of being a sitting President, and his poor showing in the poll startled his advisers. Said one White House aide: "If there's any apathy, that ought...
...George McGovern ran on a more or less populist platform in 1972 and was soundly trounced. Burned once, Democrats are wary of playing with this kind of political fire again. Among many liberals, Harris is the sentimental favorite. He speaks their language forcefully and eloquently. But after they cheer and chortle over his speeches, they have sober second thoughts. They want a winner in 1976, and Harris does not look like...
While Havens was cleaning up, Captain Jeff Weigand played Amherst student George McGovern. It wasn't enough that Amherst provided the South Dakotan Senator with Tom Eagleton the only vice-presidential candidate forced off a ticket in history, now they torture him by giving his namesake a squash racket and watching him embarrass himself in public...
...those colleagues who would cover up a public figure's private pecadilloes. (Ford Aide Robert Hartmann, he writes, was "nasty, vindictive and loud-and that was when he was sober.") Reeves typically refuses to run with the pack. While much of the press was still awed by George McGovern's primary victories early in 1972, Reeves was already debunking his fellow liberal. Says New York Editor Clay Felker: "Dick says things that may not go down well on the Georgetown circuit...
...ever betray you, then I want you to leave me," he tells youthful supporters in New Hampshire-and they warmly applaud his sincerity. So far, he remains well back in the presidential pack. Still, as so many of the candidates keep pointing out, so was George McGovern in a comparable period four years...