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Word: mcgoverns (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...That's very much like Scrooge trying to take credit for the spirit of Christmas."-McGovern, referring to Nixon's attempt to take credit for the increase in social security payments...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Sweet and Sour Political Rhetoric | 10/16/1972 | See Source »

...guess we've got to just accept the fact that McGovern doesn't have a plan for America. All that the fractional and truncated plans he offers seem to do is make him very popular in some sectors in North Viet Nam."-Agnew...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Sweet and Sour Political Rhetoric | 10/16/1972 | See Source »

...think there's been enough killing and dying for a corrupt regime. That doesn't mean that I wouldn't be willing to die for something that represents the best that we want to protect in the world."-Eleanor McGovern on whether she would be willing to die for the Thieu regime, as Julie Eisenhower and Pat Nixon had said they would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Sweet and Sour Political Rhetoric | 10/16/1972 | See Source »

...Nowhere in the Bible, not even in Revelation, is it written that black people have to vote Democratic. McGovern went to France to get a running mate before turning to a black brother here at home."-Alban Niles, a black Democrat for Nixon, speaking at a Republican dinner in Los Angeles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Sweet and Sour Political Rhetoric | 10/16/1972 | See Source »

...best case to be made for Richard Nixon's re-election can probably be found in his handling of foreign relations. George McGovern, on the other hand, has been accurately criticized for not articulating a clear foreign policy alternative of his own. Last week, speaking before the City Club of Cleveland, McGovern attempted to do just that. He rejected Republican charges that he is an isolationist and scored some telling points against Nixon's global policies; yet he left his own view of the world too fuzzy for the speech to make a major political impact. McGovern defenders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ISSUES'72: The Candidates' World | 10/16/1972 | See Source »

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