Word: mcgoverns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Senators Edward Kennedy and Gaylord Nelson condemned the company. AFL-CIO President George Meany and Senator George McGovern, New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller and Mayor John Lindsay joined in endorsing the boycott. Chicano Leader Cesar Chavez rolled into town in a bus carrying large signs proclaiming support...
...based "on hearsay, character assassination, innuendo or guilt by association." A White House release quoted Chapin as calling the reports "fundamentally inaccurate." Clark MacGregor, Nixon's campaign manager, insisted that "Dwight Chapin just simply was not involved in any way." He said such stories were inspired by "George McGovern and his partner in mudslinging, the Washington Post...
Vorenberg served as an advisor on crime and drug policy for Senator George S. McGovern (D-S.D.) in the 1972 presidential campaign. He was director of the Office of Criminal Justice under Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy...
Moynihan's second thesis--that a conservative Nixon co-opted the liberals by proposing a reform plan--rests upon the assumption that all Congressmen should have supported the FAP. The liberal Democrats have always favored welfare reform and could be expected to propose a guaranteed income of their own (McGovern did); the Republicans could be expected to go along with their president's program on principle; and the conservative Dixiecrats were counted on to back the plan because their states would receive the most benefits. But the plan failed and it failed from the left. Liberals were heard saying...
Obvious choices, notably Sen. George McGovern, were passed over--people who could deliver an address worth the time spent listening. There are many: Elma Lewis, the founder of the Boston Afro-American Cultural Center who received an honorary degree from Harvard last year; Saul Bellow, another honorary recipient in 1972; J. Anthony Lewis '48, the Times columnist who is returning for his 25th Reunion this year...