Word: mcgoverns
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Serious Question. Among major papers that announced their choices last week, the Philadelphia Inquirer and Los Angeles Times came out for Nixon. McGovern, said the Times, is "weakest where Mr. Nixon is strongest-in the perception of the nation's place in the world." But the St. Louis Post-Dispatch expressed its dissent, saying that McGovern "offers a philosophy of decency and compassion directed toward healing wounds and drawing the nation together. Mr. Nixon's appeal is to less noble instincts...
...candidates, declares for Nixon in its current issue. The editorial says: "The Nixon Administration, despite its one glaring failure in foreign policy-the long stay in Viet Nam for less and less-and despite some sizable shortcomings in domestic policy, does have an impressive record of accomplishment." LIFE credits McGovern with "admirable qualities of compassion and courage," but concludes: "Some of his statements on foreign policy and defense have sounded either uninformed or frighteningly naive. Most damaging of all, his indecisiveness and his impulsive rhetoric have raised a serious question as to his personal capacity to handle the responsibilities...
...supporters. His own environmental administrator, William D. Ruckelshaus, had pointed out that the money could be spent over several years and urged Nixon to approve the legislation. Congressional Democrats spoke vehemently. Senator Edmund Muskie saw the veto primarily as a gesture in support of industrial polluters, and Senator George McGovern said the Administration's whole record on pollution was one of "hypocritical platitudes coupled with spineless inaction." Within two hours of the veto message, the Senate overrode the President by a vote of 52 to 12, and the House followed suit by an overwhelming...
...Nixon's implied demonology, the man who stands for "the welfare ethic" is George McGovern. Candidate McGovern briefly proposed that, as a substitute for some existing federal assistance programs, the Government give a $1,000 grant to every man, woman and child in the land, whether working or not. Yet McGovern, every bit as compulsive a worker as Nixon, is solidly in favor of the work ethic, saying "I have very little patience with people who somehow feel that it is of no consequence if they do not work." He contends that most people share his dedication to toil...
...McGovern strikes Mailer as a thoroughly decent man-if not quite the St. George of the book's title then at least a minister of one of the two political parties that Mailer sees as possibly "the true churches of America." Yet McGovern and his followers have for Mailer both an unbecoming air of innocence and an insufficiency of evil. In Mailerian terms, this usually means a lack of recognition of the demoniac part of human nature...