Word: mcgoverns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...know you were one of the largest contributors to the McGovern campaign in this state. In this how far your liberation goes? Bass asked...
Some congressional Democrats, led by South Carolina Senator Ernest Hoilings, Maine's Edmund Muskie and Massachusetts Democratic Representative Thomas O'Neill Jr., also urged Westwood to step down. McGovern came only halfheartedly to her defense, suggesting that dissidents ought to "let things simmer down" before seeking her removal...
...sure, however, who should replace Westwood. Leaderless and feuding, the party was also quarreling about what to do with the McGovern campaign's various lists of contributors and voters identified by their political preferences. McGovern insisted that one such file of 600,000 names "belongs to me-it's a personal list." McGovern regional workers outside Washington feared that handing their lists over to regular local party organizations might mean that they would never be able to have access to the names again. "These files are the only remaining fruits of our labors," explained Ronnie Brooks, McGovern...
Perhaps so. The overriding fact remains that the Democrats, at least on the presidential level, failed to convince the majority of voters that the party at present stands for majority interests. As McGovern's campaign manager, Gary Hart, put it in his postmortem: "People who used to be poor are not poor any longer. Their interests are not the same. So it isn't enough to say Democrats, Democrats, lunch pail, lunch pail." Only with this insight can the Democrats begin their road back to reality...
...came to be in the 20th. To do this, he had to prop up the decaying Ottoman Empire, a policy that outraged Liberals who felt that it was a violation of British principles to support a corrupt regime. To stretch a point or two, Disraeli even had a McGovern hectoring him in the person of Gladstone, the Liberal leader who thundered his righteous indignation at the power politics played behind his back. Gladstone was an inveterate moralizer who, as André Maurois once noted, "was reproached not so much for always having the ace of trumps up his sleeve...