Word: mcgoverns
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Richard Nixon and his White House have managed to stand above it all, exonerated by a vast majority of the American people. McGovern is running against President Nixon, not against ITT or Continental Grain or Maurice Stans and his overstuffed safe. The American people, for all their wariness, still separate the presidency from the events below. They do not want it to falter or be demeaned even though the men in office arrive there by the questionable trade of politics. All politicians, most people understand, can survive only on vast sums in campaign contributions, sometimes degradingly solicited. So while...
President Nixon is opposed to liberalized abortion laws, and Senator McGovern is somewhat less than an advocate. Whom, then, should a committed feminist support? When challenged at a women's caucus in Manhattan for backing McGovern, Committed Feminist Gloria Steinem drew laughter and applause by answering: "If McGovern were a woman and he got pregnant, he would make an honest decision whether or not to have an abortion. If Nixon got pregnant, he'd have an abortion but he'd go around afterward telling everybody that he was still a virgin...
...NIXON'S OPPONENT were another man of corrupted sensibilities, we could rightfully despair. But George McGovern is a decent man. Pitted against a President who spins lies and breaks lives with extravagance, McGovern, despite the claims of his opponent, emerges as a sober and honest representative of the American heartland...
...McGovern's Vietnam plan would end the war. Withdrawal of American military support would and the destruction of Indochina and return American prisoners to their homes. Nixon has manipulated the prisoner issue to gain favor with the voters. In fact, as McGovern has said, continued American bombing not only protracts the war, it also creates more prisoners. Since Nixon took office, 550 Americans have been reported captured or missing in action. No nation releases prisoners before the fighting stops. After the French left Vietnam, all their prisoners were returned. The real prisoner issue in Vietnam concerns not the captive Americans...
...money that will be saved by ending this destruction can be ploughed back into the national economy. McGovern's first priority is to create jobs for the unemployed by spending money on public works. He would cut $20 billion a year from the grossly padded defense budget, a budget which encourages such financial disasters as the Lockheed debacle. He would introduce tax reforms and make a small step toward equalizing the distribution of income in this country. Unlike the value-added tax which a second Nixon Administration would probably levy on the common man, the McGovern proposals would close...