Word: mcgoverns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...touching a raw nerve," says Correspondent Hays Gorey. "One Republican source and friend, hearing the proposed topic for an interview, said, Tm going to hang up now.' I promised not to mention the Watergate, and he gave me two minutes." Corey's colleague, Simmons Fentress, found the McGovern people more willing to talk about the delicate matter of money. Still, he says, it "is not the kind of story where one person or three or even three dozen will tell you what you want to know. So you work up bits and pieces...
...TIME wasted a great many pages trying to point out reasons for the huge Nixon lead over McGovern in the polls [Oct. 2]. A single paragraph in the issue tells the reason: Americans are sick and tired of hearing people attack their country. McGovern is symbolic of those who spell America with a K, and most Americans prefer it with a C. Even millions of Democrats such as myself find him totally unacceptable on this one issue...
...describe McGovern's America as a land of peace and prosperity where inflation and poverty would end and the environment would be cleansed. You then go on to say that "it is a glowing vision, but is it realistically attainable? And if so, how much would it cost to sustain it?" As a college junior, I think McGovern's vision sounds all right; so if the guy says...
...Surely more of us represented on the McGovern side of the cover exist in this fair land of ours than those who exist on the Nixon side: more blacks, more of the ethnic minorities, more of the unemployed, the aged, the hungry: more of the crime-war-Watergate-satiated; more humans truly concerned for the rights and dignity of all human beings...
...question is: Can all of us be alerted to the real need for George McGovern in time to get to the polls...