Word: mcgoverns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Light. Only twice last week did McGovern abandon his slashing attacks on Nixon to set forth some proposals of his own. In New York, he detailed a program for combating crime with gun-control laws, additional foot patrolmen, tenant patrols, a "national light-the-streets" plan and other ideas. In Cleveland he turned to foreign policy (see following story). This week, in a half-hour national television address, he will spell out his specific plan for getting the U.S. out of Viet Nam. It will come almost exactly four years after Nixon's campaign speech in which he declared...
...speech before United Press International editors in Washington last week, McGovern gave three possible explanations for why his campaign still lags far behind in the polls: "First, a failure by me to communicate my real character and veracity to the voters; second, a masterful political selling job by Mr. Nixon; third, a possible inability by some of the press to bring the same critical examination to the two candidates...
...McGovern perhaps is correct in criticizing the press for focusing considerable attention on his earlier staff squabbles without probing very deeply into Nixon's bland and often hermetically sealed operations. Sometimes the chaotic openness and candor of the McGovern campaign has perhaps invited stories about dissension, while the Nixon noncampaign has too often reduced reporters to press-release journalism...
Undeniably there has also been a zigzag effect in the press. Many reporters who were taken aback by McGovern's success in the primaries wrote admiringly of him then, speculating about the deep sources of discontent that he had tapped, but grew more critical and skeptical after the convention...
...McGovern's own behavior is also very much to blame, and that fact is most damagingly symbolized by what the numerically minded Chinese would undoubtedly call "The Failure of the Double Thousands." His $1,000-per-person revenue sharing plan, first offered, then withdrawn, left him in the double jeopardy of seeming both unwise and wishy-washy, although he spiritedly argued last week that a mature leader must have the right to change his mind. Other items fell into place, leaving the impression of just another politician with his moistened finger to the wind. The purity of his stand...