Word: mcgoverns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...registered Democrat who voted for Senator George S. McGovern (D.-S.D.) in the 1972 presidential election, said that he is satisfied with guidelines Richardson releasted that define the prosecutor's function...
...refused a White House press pass ("Rolling what?" said the officials), he wrote that "getting barred from the White House is like being blackballed at the Playboy Club;" following Nixon at all "is like being sentenced to six months in a Holiday Inn;" and "the difference between traveling with McGovern and traveling with Nixon is just like the difference between going on tour with the Grateful Dead and going on tour with the Pope." Curtains are certainly coming down now, but Thompson ripped down a few veneers of his own last fall, both politically and journalistically, by displaying a calculated...
...campaign full time in late 1971, he was in a peculiar position. Rolling Stone was not noted for being bound by ties with Washington, and they could leave Thompson--the best thing they'd ever had--with a completely free hand. He ran wild with it--interviewing George McGovern at a urinal, throwing objectivity out the window, junking any semblance of "off-the-record," refusing to repress an obvious bias (pro-McGovern), and drawing no line at the point where the facts ended and his imaginative insanity began. For example, he gets into some very heavy slander: NBC's John...
...that makes him a serious commentator the whole way through. He was about the only journalist who had the license to publish unabridged articles from a whole year of reporting, simply because he made so few mistakes and so many shrewd prophecies. He predicted a first-ballot victory for McGovern at the convention when the Senator had only 95 delegates to his name and he was opposed to Eagleton as a "cheap hustler" from the beginning. In fact, of fifty or sixty bets with fellow reporters during the campaign, Thompson lost only...
...more constructive moods, Hunter Thompson suggests that what a man like George McGovern needs is "at least one dark kinky streak of Mick Jagger in his soul." In the final analysis, Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail makes it clear that something like this, something is necessary to beat...