Word: mcgoverns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Republican. The G.O.P. took Pennsylvania for the first time since 1956. Only Massachusetts and the District of Columbia saved McGovern from the humiliation of suffering the first electoral shutout in modern American history...
...admirer of Neil Diamond, I was shocked and disgusted by the disrespect shown to him when Ethel Kennedy poured beer on his head at the McGovern-Shriver fund-raising picnic...
...predawn speech with which he accepted the Democratic nomination last July, George McGovern quoted from a Woody Guthrie song: "This land is your land./This land is my land./ From California to the New York island." The words might come back to him now with a bitter ring. The land, "from the redwood forest to the Gulfstream waters," pretty much belonged to Richard Nixon. Hawaii, which had never gone Republican, wound up in the President's column. For the first time in a hundred years, Arkansas went...
...campaign. The nation's mood coming out of the '60s was predominantly one of truculent complacency, rediscovered material comfort, a weariness with those who criticized the U.S., a continued fondness for the old values and much of the old politics. Last spring and summer, with the rise of the McGovern movement, some journalists and politicians believed that somehow the center had fallen out of American politics, that a new and crucial mood of alienation had taken hold far beyond the young and the minorities. But as the election proved, the center remains very much alive...
...then concluded that the danger from Viet Nam was over. If the as yet unfulfilled promise of an imminent peace settlement was beginning to raise doubts in the electorate in the last days of the campaign, that anxiety was still too vague and inchoate to make any difference for McGovern...