Word: mcgoverns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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LESS THAN one year ago the joyous shouts of "Four more years!" were permeating the air as the Nixon Youth celebrated its leader's victory. But the slogan which once rang with a nauseating finality for McGovern supporters and those disillusioned by both candidates now twists into irony, Nov. 7, 1972, was only a preliminary verdict, merely eliminating George McGovern and Sargent Shriver. The fates of Richard M. Nixon and Spiro T. Agnew, the Republican ticket of 1972, still await the decisions of courts in Maryland and Washington...
...with greater wealth of established fact, there might, nonetheless, be some permanent value in the effort of a contemporary reporter to catch the mood and the strains, the weariness, elation and uncertainties of the men who sought to lead America..." But here again White has failed. For while George McGovern was completely open to close, critical interrogation and analysis, Richard Nixon, the man who was finally made President and thus supposedly the central subject of the book, was hidden behind a personal security more stringent than his national security...
Traditionally, The Making of the President has included the loser on a smaller scale. But in 1972 the Democratic primaries, the convention, and the party's failed attempts for the presidency make up a substantial part of the book. McGovern's grass roots campaign had about it an electricity unrivaled in recent years, something The Making of the President 1972 explores from beginning to end with the best reportorial skill...
...final analysis is weak--White thinks McGovern failed to read the public mood--a mood which, according to him, no longer trusted the post-world-war liberal dogma of the Democrats...
...longer thought of as a small group of beer drinkers and fascists. We have members who voted for McGovern and we also have registered Democrats...