Word: mcgoverns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...improper in politics. While readily agreeing that Democratic improprieties do not justify Republican misdeeds (" Tu quoque is the weakest of all arguments"), Buchanan took every opportunity to cite political tactics by Democrats that he considered worse than anything Republicans had done. What could be worse, he suggested, than George McGovern's comparing Nixon with Adolf Hitler and U.S. war policy in Southeast Asia with Hitler's extermination of Jews.* But what kind of political activity did he advocate? "Anything that was not considered immoral, unethical, illegal-or unprecedented in previous Democratic campaigns," Buchanan replied to sympathetic caucus-room...
...outcome of another party's primary elections so as to be able to run against the opponent's weakest candidate. He stoutly defended his memos urging that Nixon campaign efforts be directed at deflating Muskie since he considered Muskie far tougher for Nixon to defeat than McGovern would be. But Buchanan insisted that none of the anti-Muskie efforts were improper or illegal. He denied urging infiltration of the Muskie campaign. Buchanan said that he would never serve as such a spy himself, since that would involve deceiving someone for whom he pretended to be working...
White doesn't see McGovern's radical shift from this stance. His myopic evaluation of the campaign can be summed up in this brief passage: "Mr. McGovern persisted in the Lincolnian tradition of hoping an appeal to the better angels of people's nature might summon them to new visions; Mr. Nixon proposed to deal with Americans as they are." White thinks that if the full Watergate story had been known, the public would still have chosen Nixon. This curious thinking leads to the inevitable conclusion that the secretive Nixon and White, who ignores this man, think that the American...
...most telling stories of the 1972 elections come from the voter statistics of Pat Caddell '72, McGovern's chief pollster. Those statistics show that in 19 of the 42 states which had either gubernatorial or senatorial elections, more people voted for those secondary offices than for the president. In other words, many people went to vote, but did not bother to vote for either of the candidates for president. In 23 states the total combined votes for the presidential candidates was less than in 1968, despite the new youth vote. While the percentage of those eligible to vote who actually...
...signs of a Soviet crackdown on political dissidents. The Jackson amendment restricts itself to the issue of emigration. Yet the untimely Soviet action against its dissidents has rallied support for the amendment, whose backers range the political spectrum from Democrats Edward Kennedy and George McGovern to Republicans Barry Goldwater and John Tower...