Word: mcgoverns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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TIME has learned of other such devious tactics during the campaign. Charles Colson, who once said that he would "walk over my own grandmother" to help Nixon, recruited young men to pose as Gay Liberationists and wear large George McGovern buttons at rallies for the Democratic candidate, thus linking McGovern with that cause...
There were insinuations that the Post had played the Watergate story heavily only to help George McGovern's election chances. The Post was naturally eager to disprove that notion. Working up to 16 hours a day, Bernstein and Woodward hounded C.R.P staffers in their homes and badgered White House aides with endless phone calls. "It was like selling magazine subscriptions," Bernstein remembers. "One out of every 30 people will feel sorry...
...Mitchell, Dean and Magruder knew about the Watergate bugging plans in advance and had discussed them at a meeting in Mitchell's office in February 1972, when Mitchell was still Attorney General. Further, according to McCord, plans were approved then to bug the Washington headquarters of Democratic Candidate George McGovern and the Miami Beach hotel suites of top party officials during the Democratic National Convention...
While there was no evidence that employees of the Nixon committee or operatives in the White House were responsible, some strange things did occur in the campaigns of Senators Edmund Muskie, George McGovern and Hubert Humphrey. For example, someone representing himself as being from McGovern's headquarters invited AFL-CIO President George Meany to meet with McGovern at a time when neither wanted such a confrontation; the misunderstanding further alienated Meany from the McGovern campaign. Someone posing as McGovern's top television-time buyer called CBS to say that he wanted to cancel a major speech; the network rechecked, found...
...Actress Liv Ullmann proves herself a perceptive critic of American men. Henry Kissinger: "Next to Ingmar Bergman, he is the most interesting man I have ever met. He is surrounded by a fascinating aura, a strange field of light, and catches you in some kind of invisible net." George McGovern: When he talks, "the words just keep coming and coming as if he hopes that a little life and truth will sneak through." Senator Ted Kennedy: "Has red and tired eyes. He has short, nervous laughter, sounds like a horse. Ted is constantly searching and searching-all night long...