Word: mcgoverns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...autographed picture of Brian Dowling, two kicking tees, and a hot dog vendor to be named later. You don't suppose the Crimson touch football team could use a little coaching help? What the hell, you guys would win 23-2 even if your coaching staff consisted of George McGovern, John Yovicsin, and the general who told the Light Brigade to charge...
...Dylan might have been a better reference. It was not a generation of life-long Democrats who had gotten McGovern that far; it was not a crowd of party regulars who were cheering...
...McGOVERN IS partly a minister, McGovern is partly a schoolteacher, but, finally, McGovern is a politician. Perhaps his error was in not deciding which of these McGoverns should run for president. But in between his passages from Yeats and Isainh, it was of the "loyal opposition" that McGovern spoke. "So I ask all of you tonight to stand with your convictions. I ask you not to despair of the political process of this country. because that process has yielded too much valuable improvement in these past two years...
Afterwards, there was Isaiah and his winged eagles, a "God bless you," and McGovern was gone. Shriver had been watching ruefully in Maryland. He would be running his hand through his hair everytime the camera switched to him. His upper lip was stiff. I could not help but have a sense of him "going through all this for the family," the Kennedy family. I was passed at Ted Kennedy; if he had joined McGovern they would have won. Now there was only NIXON. THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES...
...Bless America. Thank you very much. Sincerely, George McGovern. Lincoln Coca Cola. I'm Harry Reasoner. And I'm Howard K. Smith. That was the national election. I was in Massachusetts. There would be four more years, but I would not watch them on television: the spectre had turned...