Word: mcgoverns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Even as the nomination was won, Gary Hart remarked that the campaign had "lost its direction, if not its soul." Throughout the meticulously planned primaries, McGovern had seemingly remained his own man, stubbornly glued on his own course and vindicated by the thumping first-ballot victory in Miami Beach. Yet trouble had begun as early as the Nebraska primary, Issues Director Ted Van Dyk says now, when McGovern's Democratic opponents "went after him on the triple-A issues" ?abortion, amnesty and acid. McGovern was soon trying to disengage himself. Even his defense programs were "clarified." Then...
...Tricky Dick" Nixon was now judged the more "open and trustworthy" by two-thirds of the sample and was seen as the "peace candidate" by 54%. The Kissinger announcement that a Viet Nam settlement is "at hand" merely reinforced Nixon's peace image. The Watergate incident and related activities, McGovern supporters felt, never had the popular impact that they deserved. Yet even if people did worry about these and other flaws in the Nixon Administration, McGovern never established himself as a believable alternative to Richard Nixon; he never seemed sufficiently "presidential...
...Nixon's 2-to-1 advantage in campaign funds, the labor split, Nixon's success in insulating himself in the White House. But there was something else, something that went beyond a litany of the Democrat's blunders and bad breaks. "A combination of circumstances may have conspired against McGovern's success," observes TIME Correspondent Dean Fischer, "but more significant are the shortcomings of the candidate himself. He failed to articulate a vision of the nation. He talked vaguely of his goals once peace is restored, but they sounded like campaign promises instead of a philosophic summons to national greatness...
...McGovern will now return to the Senate, at least until his term expires in 1974. And he has indicated that he would like to stay longer. "McGovern's rigidity," concludes Fischer, "his sense of moral conviction, was at once a strength and a weakness. It is a strength that will enable him to survive the overwhelming defeat; he won't be shattered because he believes that his cause is just. But it is a weakness because it causes him to ignore shadings and to consider problems in an inflexible, moralistic manner. The issues McGovern discussed during the campaign are central...
...they have always felt more secure. Arkansas Governor Dale Bumpers, chairman of the Democratic Governors' Caucus, has convened a meeting to chart a strategy of moderation. As Governor Jimmy Carter goes round inviting Democrats to join him in planning the future of the party, he emphasizes that the "McGovern people are not in charge of the invitation lists" and that "everyone is going to have to give a little...