Word: mcgoverns
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WASHINGTON Correspondent Bonnie Angela has covered politicians and other public people on six continents for 16 years, but the last place she expected to be the other day was in a Bayonne, N.J., brassiere factory. When Eleanor McGovern chose that unlikely spot to hustle votes for Husband George, Angelo and other reporters were on hand. Politics has obviously changed since the genteel kaffeeklatsch campaigning that most political wives used to practice, and the jet-paced public styles of Pat Nixon and Eleanor McGovern are at the heart of this week's cover story...
Angelo, who did the principal reporting on both women, has also written about the activities of most of Washington's prominent politicians, including the men behind Pat and Eleanor. She began following Mrs. McGovern down the political trail during the Democratic primaries last spring. Last week, amidst a hectic schedule of campaign visits to youth groups, senior citizens, day-care centers and factories, the two sat down again for a private chat in the McGovern hotel suite in White Plains...
...McGovern's speech was not as noteworthy for its content--it was basically the same text he has been using around the country for several weeks as for the huge throng of people in Post Office Square who cheered every rhetorical flourish...
Police estimates of the crowd ranged from 75,000 to 100,000--by far the largest rally of McGovern's campaign. The enthusiastic reception stirred the candidate to a bitter denunciation of the Nixon Administration, which he labeled "the biggest moral affront to the standards of our country of any administration in the history of this nation...
...McGovern returns on Wednesday for a final boost from the Bay State. Nixon must wonder what Ed Brooke's got that he doesn't have...