Word: mcgoverns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...George S. McGovern [D-S.D.] slipped quietly into Cambridge on November 4, one year to the week after losing every state but Massachusetts to President Nixon in the 1972 election. McGovern came to address an Institute of Politics seminar on November 5. While in Cambridge, he made no speeches, held no press conferences, attended no rallies...
...same week that Republican senators and conservative newspapers joined in the public outcry over corruption in Nixon's administration--the issue that McGovern tried unsuccessfully to mine throughout the campaign and that might have made him president if Watergate had broken open a year earlier...
...Before McGovern's talk to the Institute seminar, reporters Dale S. Russakoff and Kevin A. Stafford interviewed him at the Crimson. The following are excerpts...
...What there's been is a curious, painful re-examination of the [McGovern Commission] reforms. [which drafted new guidelines for selection of convention delegates, thereby increasing the number of women, minority and youth delegates.] I would say that most of the energy of the Democratic Party since the '72 election has centered on a struggle to re-examine and possibly rewrite the reforms. But if I read the recommendations that they finally agreed on correctly, what they said was that the '72 reforms were essentially right. I don't have any quarrels with what I assume--what I believe...
...McGovern...