Word: mcgoverns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Pipes is a registered Democrat, who voted for Humphrey in 1968 and for every Democratic presidential candidate before him. He says he would have voted for any candidate the Democrats put up, except McGovern...
Wilson is one of the large group of people who, like George Meany, will not say for the record who they are voting for. But the implication is clear from the denunciations they heaped upon McGovern. Although Wilson refrains entirely from commenting on the strengths or weaknesses of either candidate, when asked about the race he waxes scholarly and presents an analytical judgment befitting a professor of Government...
...assessment of the situation is this. In this campaign the things that McGovern had to do to win the nomination have made it impossible for him to win the election. He had to make a strong and striking appeal to mobilize what you could call 'movement' political forces, rather than establishment ones. He had to make strong commitments, moral commitments in order to win their allegiance. Then when confronted with the election, he had an albatross around his neck...
Wilson says that these factors, and not McGovern's later problems such as the Eagleton fiasco, have been the cause of his failure. He believes the campaign has not been able to produce any substantive issues, and sees "not much difference" between the two candidates' positions on Vietnam...
OTHER PROFESSORS ARE MORE silent. For instance, Adam B. Ulam, professor of Government and another registered Democrat, says simply, "I am not voting for McGovern." Asked why, Ulam says the questions are too complicated and grumbles something about foreign policy...