Word: mcgoverns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...argument is that you're so well known, your pluses are as clear as your minuses; that getting one of those 20, who is an undecided type, to vote for you on your positive points is much less likely than getting him to vote against McGovern by scaring him to death about McGovern...
...argue against our hammering our strong point. His argument is when you are attacking--we should do some of our advertising--should be an attack on McGovern advertising--and that attack should not [unintelligible] Nixon strong points. It should only [unintelligible] McGovern negative points...
...Dean on Sept. 15, 1972, to keep notes "on all those who tried to do us in" because "they are asking for it and they are going to get it." On March 13, 1973, Nixon seemed to be offering the use of the IRS to investigate the financing of McGovern's campaign and raised no objection when Dean said that he already had access to such information from...
...City sisters. In general, however, the Ridder papers do not have the heft and influence of the Knight dailies. Though the Knight brothers are both conservatives, the papers are what Hills describes as "central progressive." In the 1972 election six Knight papers endorsed Richard Nixon and two backed George McGovern; only two echoed John Knight's own position, which was that he would not support either candidate...
...Candidate (now Governor) John Gilligan at a salary of 18? an hour plus expenses and produced an ungainly -and largely unread-2,000-page report. But by 1971 the Harvard senior and two partners had refined their technique and formed Cambridge Survey Research. Their first of many clients: George McGovern, whom C.S.R. projected as the Democratic nominee. Next, C.S.R. plans to offer quarterly economic reports to business executives...