Word: mcgoverns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...George McGovern doesn't frighten us. We are old enough to recall all the fears about that "terrible radical" Franklin D. Roosevelt, who proved to be an outstanding President...
...Republican for McGovern...
...Hooray for Eleanor McGovern [Oct. 9]! At last there could be a woman in the White House who is willing to stand up and be counted for what she believes, who is capable of discussing issues and who would be more than a china-doll First Lady. How interesting to contrast her style with that of Mrs. Nixon, who can say after a cross-country trip that she didn't see any problems...
...leaving the political issues to be settled by the Vietnamese themselves. If Nixon were to win a second term, Kissinger argued, the Administration offer could well harden. In September, by the reckoning of intelligence analysts in Washington, the polls began to convince the Hanoi Politburo that a victory by McGovern, who has proposed that the U.S. should "break free of Thieu" with a unilateral withdrawal, was a poor gamble...
Nixon too must pay attention to the tricky politics of peace. According to Pollster Daniel Yankelovich, Viet Nam is "the key" to Nixon's commanding lead over McGovern. But the U.S. public's conviction that Nixon is better able to handle the war might change dramatically if the Administration were to run into big trouble in Paris-or, more accurately, in Saigon. As the White House well knows, an obstreperous ally in Saigon refusing to accept the Kissinger-designed settlement might raise new doubts in the minds of the U.S. electorate about the Administration's course...