Word: mcgoverns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Republican presidential nomination last week, Reagan may well have begun to regret the whole idea. Reason: the $90 billion statement is threatening to turn into the sort of gaffe that has helped sink previous presidential campaigns: Barry Goldwater's 1964 proposal to make Social Security voluntary and George McGovern's 1972 recommendation that the Government pay every American $1,000 a year. Above an editorial at tacking the scheme, New Hampshire's Portsmouth Herald last week carried the headline REAGAN DIGS HIS OWN GRAVE. Although federal taxes would be decreased, Gerald Ford's campaign aides...
Other stories could be told here. There is Pat Caddell, now an independent pollster, who senior year was whispering strategy in George McGovern's ear. Jim Halperin, who dropped out sophomore year to devote more time to his stamp-dealing business--three years later, Halperin owns the most valuable coin in the world and employs his father as a vice-president. The three Lampoon editors who turned their Harvard activity into a national magazine and made their first millions at age 23. These people may have found a private harmony to match their public success, and they may not have...
Most of the rule changes have been made within the Democratic Party. They are part of the general movement, begun in 1964 and accelerated sharply in 1972, to assure women and minorities more delegate seats at the national convention. After those changes angered party leaders and George McGovern lost a lopsided election, the rules were modified to eliminate what had become a virtual quota system of delegate selection. But the resulting rules for conducting state caucuses and conventions were so complex that many state legislatures threw up their hands and decided to hold primary elections instead...
...pendulous second chin, his hair parted down the middle, gravy stains on his tie, a beer bottle or a container of coffee in one hand and a badly chewed but unlighted cigar in the other, Harris can hardly be mistaken for a limousine liberal. "The difference between me and McGovern," he told TIME Correspondent Stanley Cloud, "is that I never tell people that they ought to do something because it's morally right. I show how it's in their own self-interest. My dad used to listen to McGovern and then say, 'Well, it sounds fine...
Harris is, if anything, more radical than McGovern. If Harris had his way, the U.S. would be much altered, perhaps beyond recognition. Before almost any audience he addresses, Harris says: "The fundamental problem is that too few people have all the money and power, and everybody else has very little of either-and that is not what Thomas Jefferson had in mind." Inveighing against "bigness" in all forms, Harris says he wants to chop down big Government and big business, but he is more reticent about big labor, since he needs its support. He would break up the automobile...