Word: mcgoverns
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GARY HART, 36, the manager of George McGovern's 1972 presidential campaign, who defeated Colorado's two-term incumbent Republican Senator, Peter Dominick. A sort of "Marlboro man" turned politician, the Kansas-born Hart stumped the state for 18 months in an endless switchback between the vote-rich "front range" and the lightly populated western slope The party is over, the day of having it all is gone," he told Coloradans, pledging to conserve the state's energy resources and work against any damaging exploitation of Colorado's oil shale "We lave an energy-rich state...
...Russell Long did not even have an opponent, and Hawaii's Daniel Inouye ran virtually unopposed. Alabama's James Allen got 90% of the vote, Georgia's Herman Talmadge 75% and South Carolina's Ernest Boilings 71%. Other re-elected Democrats were George McGovern of South Dakota Adlai Stevenson of Illinois, Abraham Ribicoff of Connecticut, Alan Cranston of California, Thomas Eagleton of Missouri Birch Bayh of Indiana, Frank Church of Idaho, Warren Magnuson of Washington, Mike Gravel of Alaska and Gaylord Nelson of Wisconsin...
...Dayton Daily News, he later led the Cox chain's expansion into broadcasting. The Cox holdings grew to include major newspapers and TV and radio stations in Ohio, Georgia, Florida, Pennsylvania, North Carolina and California. A lifelong Democrat, Cox was so alienated by the nomination of George McGovern in 1972 that he not only endorsed Richard Nixon but also ordered all of his newspapers to follow suit...
...plotters and hatchet nuns, are obviously Haldeman and Ehrlichman. Peripatetic Sister Gertrude, who phones in nightly from Reykjavik or Mombasa and, in a German accent, recommends the study of Machiavelli, is our very own Secretary of Snake. Sister Felicity seems to be an unstable amalgam of George McGovern and John Dean...
...think we had the right guy in this election," Brian Young '76, a campaign coordinator said after the concession speech. "Like with McGovern, we lost, but we had the right...