Word: mcgoverns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that had never before occurred not even in the Morse days and gave Cronin 14,452 votes to Kerry's 13,905. The vote was a direct repudiation of Kerry's candidates rather than a wholesale diverston from the town's traditional Democratic history. In the Presidential race. George McGovern outpolled Richard Nixon in Lawrence...
...Lowell, Kerry did even worse cronin took 53 per cent of the vote outdistancing Kerry, 20.747 to 17,227. Like Lawrence, Lowell voted against the local Democratic while going solidly for the party's national standard bearer McGovern...
...Henry Kissinger waited for word that Hanoi's Le Duc Tho would join him in Paris for the promised one final session to wrap up the peace package. On television, Richard Nixon repeated that he would not be "stampeded" into signing the agreement before it is "right." George McGovern replied bitterly that Nixon had embarked "not on a path to peace but a detour around Election Day." North Viet Nam's Paris spokesman Nguyen Than Le blasted the Administration as "dishonest" and demanded that it make a public "commitment" to sign the agreement as it stood. In Saigon...
...through the presidential race, one of George McGovern's refrains on his "secrecy-and-corruption" theme was the Administration's refusal to name the contributors who had poured at least $10 million anonymously into Republican campaign chests. The money, McGovern suggested, carried the possible taint of special favors. Eventually Common Cause, the reformist citizens' lobby founded by John Gardner, filed suit to force the G.O.P. to yield up its list of benefactors...
...following train of heavy older cars was not properly warned. The lead coach of the second train slammed into the last coach of the double-decker, shearing off the lower level of seats and passengers. Flags in the city were flown at half-staff, and rallies for both George McGovern and Richard Nixon were canceled. Since the new car shredded so thoroughly on impact, Illinois Governor Richard Ogilvie announced that the state would withhold funds for further purchase of the modern equipment until investigation of the accident was completed...