Word: mcgoverns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Harold Willens. "It's the nastiest thing in all of politics, and it may destroy our whole political system," contends Missouri Judge George W. Lehr. "There's a smell, an odor about it, and unless things change the system cannot survive," insists Larry O'Brien, campaign manager for George McGovern. Says Senator Edward Kennedy: "It is the most flagrant single abuse in our democracy, the unconscionable power of money...
...sure, most of the indignation arises this year among Democrats, who fear that McGovern, whatever his failings, will not be able to muster the kind of money needed to give him any chance of overcoming the huge lead in voter preference held by Richard Nixon. Although the McGovern campaign is doing amazingly well in obtaining small donations through mass mailings, the candidate has badly failed in corralling the really big money. The result is that the McGovern campaign will be hard-pressed to raise $22 million. Nixon's committees expect to muster at least $45 million. That financial edge would...
...solicitation stakes are higher and the possibility of a compromising commitment is greater in the highly competitive chase for the checks of wealthy individuals. Reluctant or not, McGovern has been darting to intimate gatherings of the wealthy, such as the party given recently by United Artists Chairman Arthur B. Krim in his Manhattan home. Sitting Presidents are usually spared such personal hustling. Instead, Nixon's "surrogate," Maurice Stans, has been flying about the nation, mainly working one on one, as well as making efficient use of the telephone...
...McGovern and Stans make their pitches in entirely different keys. The McGovern approach was demonstrated recently when some 70 of Wisconsin's wealthy liberals, about half of them Jewish, gathered in Milwaukee's Pfister Hotel. They sipped cocktails and munched Wisconsin cheese and crackers until McGovern arrived. After shaking hands all round, he talked quietly but optimistically for 20 minutes about the state of his campaign. Then he answered questions for half an hour. What about tax reform, inheritance taxes, property taxes, defense cuts? Most of his questioners already knew the answers, but the gift-giving ritual requires that they...
Screams. Then Burt Zien, the Milwaukee plumbing and heating tycoon who had organized the affair, took over. "Okay, you fellas know why you're here," he began. He painted a sorry picture of McGovern's finances and stepped up the pressure: "He needs money fast?very fast. He has to tie down television time and pay travel bills. Soliciting pledges through the mail and collecting them takes too much time. What we want you to do is to loan McGovern money now. This will probably be the least-secured loan you'll ever make. There's no collateral...