Word: mcgoverns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Frank L. Manckiewicz, the national political director for the presidential campaign of Senator George McGovern (D-S.D.), said last night that the exposure of corruption in the Nixon administration has broadened the race for the 1976 Democratic presidential nomination...
Manckiewicz accused the national press of ignoring the corruption issue, in spite of McGovern's charges during the campaign, until the Watergate affair began to unravel. The press is unable to treat the incumbent like any other candidate during a Presidential campaign, Manckiewicz commented...
...During the campaign," he said, "I proposed that we buy a building where Senator McGovern was going to speak, and set fire to it--and every camera in America would turn out to watch the action...
...your story on the P.O.W.s [March 19] you said that as a newly returned prisoner of war, Colonel Robinson Risner had even talked all of his children into supporting President Nixon, although they all had supported Senator McGovern in the presidential campaign. I am Colonel Risner's oldest son, and I do not now support, nor have I ever supported President Nixon...
When Senator McGovern campaigned in Oklahoma City last summer, I explained in his presence that I believed President Nixon had failed at any attempt to end the war and free the prisoners; and that I believed Senator McGovern was sincere in his efforts to end the war and bring the prisoners home...