Word: mcgoverns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...about the facts. The truth is that at the time when the Watergate was burgled and the dirty tricks were played and the dirty money was raised, the president's position in the polls was at best precarious. Senator Muskie was defeating him in the early trial heats; Senator McGovern was only eight points behind in May; and even after the California debates, the $1000 plan, and the Democratic Convention, the McGovern polls showed--as the Nixon polls surely also did--that a substantial segment of the electorate was only tentatively committed to Nixon and wanted to know more about...
...have long since wrapped up the Watergate investigations, since "the case was 90% ready" when Cox inherited it; the reason Cox could not wrap up his investigations was that Nixon would not provide him with the evidence on the tapes or in White House files. He said that the McGovern campaign, as well as his own, had received illegal corporate contributions; this could be so. But six major corporations have been found guilty of illegal contributions to the 1972 Nixon effort, while not a single charge of wrongdoing has so far been brought against any company for giving to McGovern...
Under one version of this plan, marketable coupons would be issued not just to drivers but to anyone who had a Social Security number; this method could accomplish a redistribution of income from rich to poor that even George McGovern might approve. But there might still be a true black market alongside the white one. Counterfeiting of coupons might still be profitable if the resale supply of legitimate coupons was tight and prices skyhigh...
...author, it should be admitted, has been a movie reviewer for Vogue, served as a knight in Jack Kennedy's Camelot and is now a proud member of the Nixon White House's hate list. He once wrote an article explaining how George McGovern would win the 1972 election. But he is also a distinguished Harvard historian who has won two Pulitzer prizes for books on the presidency (The Age of Jackson, 1946; John F. Kennedy, The Thousand Days...
...would run for his life). In this particular case Mr. Garin's knee-jerk panacea of conscription must be looked at a lot more closely and must not just be adopted because a certain Richard M. Nixon happened to support the all-volunteer military--after all so did George McGovern, Henry Rosovsky, Playboy magazine and Barry Goldwater...