Word: mcgoverns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Ford was particularly incensed with opposition among some liberals in Congress. Democratic Senator George McGovern of South Dakota claimed that "90% of the Vietnamese refugees would be better off going back to their own land" because only "a handful of government leaders were in any real danger of reprisals." Democratic Representative Elizabeth Holtzman of New York urged the U.S. to bar "persons who may have engaged in misappropriating U.S. funds, run tiger cages or carried out the torture of political prisoners...
...quite. Washington is not yet prepared to lift the embargo, although pressures have been mounting within both the State Department and Congress for normalizing American-Cuban relations. Last week Senator George McGovern, a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, flew to Cuba for a four-day visit. The former Democratic presidential nominee was the third Senator to make a factfinding visit to Cuba in the past eight months.* He went, as he put it, "to see for myself what the Cubans have accomplished in their system. I'm going to try to learn. I want to see what...
...Viet Nam War seems endless in its capacity to generate unpleasant surprises. The latest is the unexpected hostility to accepting Vietnamese refugees into the U.S. It has surfaced suddenly with considerable fervor, and for a variety of often contradictory reasons, all over the country. Senator McGovern, the 1972 presidential peace candidate, says: "I think the Vietnamese are better off in Viet Nam, including the orphans." The manager of a John Birch Society bookstore near the new refugee tent city at Eglin Air Force Base in Florida is afraid of "tropical diseases floating around." Right-wingers worry that there might...
Frank Mankiewicz is a journalist and lawyer-as well as former campaign manager for George McGovern-and he makes an insistent point: it was not the press that brought Nixon down, but the law-respect for it and for the kind of step-by-step preparation and pursuit that due process requires. Mankiewicz is especially sharp at pointing out the lies and equivocations of Nixon's TV statements and press conferences...
...York Yankees, was the eye opener. Steinbrenner had been a stalwart Democratic fund raiser during the 1968 campaign. Soon he was being investigated by IRS, and the Justice Department. "They are holding the lumber over my head," Steinbrenner told O'Neill when Tip asked him for contributions for McGovern...