Word: mcgoverns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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WITH THE DEMOCRATS in '72, the closed convention and the myth of the alienated artist have become things of the past: replacing the Madison Avenue slogan writers, today's American artists have come out swinging with some rhetoric of their own. "McGovern for McGovernment," was only one exhortation displayed in the lyrical posters of Alexander Calder (a prominent American artist currently living in France) at last week's sale and auction of contemporary art in Boston's Parker 470 Gallery...
...large the people who organized and worked in the Committee for Art for McGovern '72 were women," said Portia Harcus, one of the four women others of Parker 470 who made their gallery available for the September 29-30 sale and the October 2 evening auction. This barnlike annex of Harcus-Krakow's Newbury St. gallery provided an understated backdrop for the raising of $80,000 towards electing the McGovern-Shriver ticket...
...with impeccable liberal credentials that date back to his undergraduate days when he actively supported Adlai Stevenson for President. He ran as a reform Democrat in a New York City Assembly district in 1962 and later headed a Federal civil rights agency. He presently supports George McGovern, and has contributed to the Democratic nominee's campaign...
Chayes, former staff director of the 1960 Democratic Platform Committee, asserted that "McGovern has not proposed a precipitate withdrawal of these forces, he has discussed a three year reorganization of American troops...
...withdrawing troops you give the Soviets the capacity to make a little trouble in the Mediterranean. but you gain resources that you can use here." Chayes continued. Chayes was asked if he had been offered a major foreign policy position in the McGovern Administration; he smiled broadly and rasped, "No. You don't pay before you get the merchandise...