Word: mcgoverns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Clean for Gene" syndrome-McCarthy's young legions getting themselves barbered and laundered lest too countercultural an appearance frighten off the more conventional citizenry. This year some of George McGovern's youthful volunteers are practicing the same Dale Carnegie tactics. Some of those who are not are getting themselves set straight. In Wisconsin, for example, McGovern headquarters mailed out instructions to some 70 state schools and universities. "Guys who canvass," said the memo, "should try to look halfway decent. Every freak must have at least a pair of slacks and a shirt. Similar for chicks. We have...
MARCHING forth from Miami Beach last July, George McGovern and his men believed that by Oct. 1 they would be closing in on Richard Nixon, savaging him with the war and that Democratic standby, the economy. Most of all, the McGovernites calculated, the issue of 1972 would be Nixon the man-the old "tricky" image, the used-car dealer, the walking credibility crisis. The irony is that the election so far is turning not on Nixon's character and credibility but on McGovern...
...problem incenses and bewilders McGovern. He told a LIFE interviewer, "Inside, I've been alternately weeping and boiling. The quality I treasure most is my credibility." All last week McGovern's frustration seemed to mount. His rhetoric took on a new stridence, a tendency toward verbal overkill that was at odds with the image of plain-spoken reason he had earlier cultivated. At times there were notes of self-righteousness and occasional self-pity...
...dominant theme was Government corruption. Where earlier he had called Nixon's the most corrupt Administration since Warren Harding, he now called it "the most corrupt in the history of the U.S." The evidence, said McGovern, was everywhere-in the Russian wheat deal, in the President's $10 million in secret campaign contributions, in the ITT affair and the Watergate bugging. Then he broadened his definition to include the war in Viet Nam, which he said "corrupts our principles." Nixon's Supreme Court nominations, he went on, corrupt the Constitution and were "the worst Supreme Court appointments...
...Chicago McGovern charged that the Republicans were funneling money to groups in the city's Spanish-speaking community to tell people that they had nothing to gain from either party, and thus reduce voter registration. Then McGovern added that four years ago the G.O.P. gave funds to black militants for the same purpose. When reporters asked the basis of his charge, McGovern said that he heard it from "reliable people." What organizations received the money? "I'm not going to divulge that." Finally a reporter suggested that the unsubstantiated allegation smacked of McCarthyism, and McGovern answered: "The difference...