Word: mcgoverns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...advice. His string of international coups that brought him super-human status--despite his previous role in charting an immoral war that killed thousands of people in North Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos--began with, ironically enough, his sensational "Peace at Hand" trick mastered just in time to deal George McGovern the final death blow right before the 1972 election. Since then, Kissinger had shuttled back and forth through the Middle East, China and the Soviet Union in his relatively successful efforts to keep the world from exploding. There's little doube that Kissinger's role under Ford is going...
...general, Democrats are suffering because they have lost their principal platform: anti-Nixonism. While they enjoyed gleeful unity as long as Watergate flourished, its resolution now exposes the deep conflicts and divisions that plague a party encompassing both George Wallace on the right and George McGovern on the left...
...economically distressed also tended to be blue-collar workers (53%) and married with children (51%). About three-fifths have incomes of $10,000 or more a year. Two out of three label themselves as Democrats, compared with 55% of the population as a whole, and more voted for George McGovern (40%) than for Richard Nixon...
...thirds of the socially resentful are Democrats, but unlike voters in economic distress, they cast their ballots for Nixon (43%) over McGovern (30%) in 1972. But 38% said they would have preferred George Wallace if he had run for the presidency...
Among Democratic leaders, none gloated over their old adversary. Hubert Humphrey described the Nixon address as "possibly the best speech the President has ever made." George McGovern expressed sympathy "for the trials [the Nixons] have suffered and for the ordeal still ahead." Edward Kennedy rejoiced that "the night of Watergate is over, the Constitution is safe, and Amer ica can become whole again...