Word: mcgoverns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...reason the professors cite for their switch is not, in general, a love for Nixon. Most have strong hesitations about all of his domestic policies and some of his foreign policies. But all see George McGovern as the greater of evils...
There are two main reasons for the anti-McGovern sentiment: the scholars feel that McGovern is incompetent, principally on the basis of his troubles with his campaign staff; and they believe that the foreign policies that McGovern advocates would precipitate a sharp decline in the international strategic power and influence of the United States...
...think McGovern's basically a total incompetent," Richard E. Pipes, professor of History and director of the Russian Research Center, said Saturday. "As a candidate, everything he has done since the Democratic Convention has been incompetent. His speeches are annoyingly provincial...
...henchmen. A contempt for the public unwitnessed since Warren G. Harding's "front porch" campaign in 1920 as the central feature in a campaign where the incumbent is afraid even to mention his name on stickers and billboards. A year that started off so promising with a string of McGovern primary victories has soured, and weary resignation seems destined to reign once again...
...NIXON-McGOVERN -- Dick will get caught bugging the men's room of the Washington Post editorial office, the states south of the Mason-Dixon line will sink into the Gulf of Mexico, and George Meany and Mao Tse-tung will co-host a fundraiser to pay McGovern's phone bill, as late returns from an Eskimo tribe in the Aleutian Islands put George over...