Word: mcgoverns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...women's rights, and other major issues were similar to Drinan's Thus, conservative Democrats whom Linsky hoped to attract, either staved with Drinan or voted for the Conservative candidate John I Collins Finally. Linsky campaigned as a Republican in the one state in the country which went to McGovern Stephen P. Crosby Linskys campaign manager commented after the election that there is a unique anti Nixon feeling in Massachusetts. Marty only supported Nixon nominally, but in this state and association with the President even a Republican tag can be damaging...
...MOST FUNDAMENTAL reason for the lack of exuberance in the Tiara Room was the showing of George McGovern. At 8:30 p.m., NBC projected a Nixon triumph. One hour later, all three television networks announced a Nixon victory, and predicted that the President would win by a landslide. The students and suburbanites watching the television sets scattered about the room shook their heads as state after state rolled into Nixon's camp. "I just can't believe it," one young volunteer said. Others were more bitter. A middle-aged man, with a mustache and fairly long sideburns...
...pace began to pick up at Drinan headquarters. The results from Waltham, which Linsky had hoped to take, showed Drinan winning by 2000 votes. Immediately after the Waltham returns were posted, McGovern launched into his concession speech and everyone turned toward the television sets. The crowd remained quiet until McGovern said. "We do not rally to the support of policies that we deplore, but we do love this country and we will continue to beckon it to a higher standard." Everyone cheered. As soon as McGovern finished speaking, Drinan emerged from seclusion, strode to the front of the Tiara Room...
Drinan began by thanking the voters for giving him "an over-whelming mandate." Nobody caught the joke, including the press which interpreted the remark as a victory statement. Drinan then lauded Massachusetts as "the peace state" which delivered "its mandate to George McGovern." He concluded his talk by saying "Come hell or high water, we'll obtain our objective, that supreme objective of everyone here and everyone in the country: peace in this world." The cheers were lusty, but there was none of the bedlam which had broken out in Drinan's headquarters on election night two years ago. Drinan...
...women's rights, and other major issues were similar to Drinan's Thus, conservative Democrats whom Linsky hoped to attract, either staved with Drinan or voted for the Conservative candidate John I Collins Finally. Linsky campaigned as a Republican in the one state in the country which went to McGovern Stephen P. Crosby Linskys campaign manager commented after the election that there is a unique anti Nixon feeling in Massachusetts. Marty only supported Nixon nominally, but in this state and association with the President even a Republican tag can be damaging...