Word: mcgovernment
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...GRANDMOTHER is perturbed. It reminds me of 1972 when she took an early lead in the conversation and managed to tell me to vote for McGovern before I could tell her. This time she thinks the economy is dying and the Arabs are getting rich while the politicians piddle around with their teapot tempests. Cutting up the chicken for Sunday lunch two weeks ago, she told me I better find out about those prices and that oil business because it's going to be the next humdinger...
Perhaps most important, Castro gradually convinced the U.S. that Cuba was no longer "exporting revolution" to the hemisphere. When Senator George McGovern visited Cuba last May, Castro discussed the 1962 missile crisis with him. "I was furious when Khrushchev compromised," Castro said. "But I realize in retrospect that he reached the proper settlement with Kennedy. If my position had prevailed, there would have been a terrible war. I was wrong...
Secretary of State Henry Kissinger still maintains that a full resumption of U.S. trade and diplomatic relations with Cuba would be "premature." But as the vice president of the Cuban Agrarian Reform Institute, Solano Pinera, told McGovern: "Don't forget, we need about $3 billion in equipment for our new [farm development] program, and we're ready to buy." With that kind of money piled up only 90 miles off Key West, U.S. businessmen are already putting pressure on Washington...
Udall's main target is the moderate-to-left end of the party spectrum. He offers progressive-sounding programs without going into too much entangling detail like George McGovern's ill-fated plan to give every American $1,000. Udall intends to avoid the McGovern mistake of alienating centrists and conservatives. He disarms those who disagree with him by resorting to an easy Western humor, so much so that sympathizers cautioned him to appear a bit more serious in public if he wants to convey a presidential image...
Humphrey has been doing s a little maneuvering. While he has not discouraged talk of a Humphrey-McGovern ticket, which would appeal to the party's left wing, he has also made overtures to the right by indicating a willingness to come to terms with George Wallace, who may arrive at the convention with one-third of the delegates. Humphrey has suggested that he would not place the Alabaman on the ticket but would let him participate in drawing up the party platform and in selecting a Cabinet if the Democrats win the election. Most comfortable when...