Word: mcgoverns
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hard to find any Democrats, other than Mondale and his immediate entourage, who are willing to flat out predict victory in November. The odds in Las Vegas are 4 to 1 against such an outcome, making an even-money bet on Mondale the biggest gamble since George McGovern was a 5-to-1 underdog in his race against Richard Nixon...
With the primary season sputtering to a close, the looming question is whether the party can unify behind a nominee. As a first tentative step (and as a way to retire his $160,000 campaign debt), George McGovern last week tried to bring all three candidates together at a glittery Los Angeles fund raiser. Jackson, resentful that McGovern had endorsed a Mondale-Hart ticket, backed out. Some what wistfully, McGovern implored Hart and Mondale, "Go as gently as you can on each other." That brought grim smiles from the two adversaries, who were standing awkwardly ten feet apart...
...Koblitz's Harvard classmate, Michael K. Fenollosa '69, now an assistant vice-president at Boston's Shawmut Bank, writes in recent Class Record Book: "Needless to say, and I suppose, somewhat regretfully. I have become a political conservative (it seems hard to believe that I once voted for George McGovern for President.)" The two men represent two of the many different solutions to the dilemma that faced the Class of '69 as it grew from adolescence to middle age: how to reconcile the concerns that motivated their college protests and the realities they face in the real world...
Grinspoon switched his affiliation from earlier support for former Sen. George S. McGovern. "I thought that Hart was the most effective and could win," says Grinspoon, who began his writings on, the nuclear issue with a 1961 article in The New Republic. "I think that Mondale could beat Reagan," he adds, "but if Reagan is re-elected I think many more people will be deeply concerned about the possibility of nuclear...
...that Lyndon Johnson got the word that the Viet Nam War outweighed his Great Society. Then his funny accent and his habitual fibbing, which hadn't angered that many folks, became the focus of derision. None of Richard Nixon's political excesses kept him from crushing George McGovern in 1972. By the summer of 1973 the bulk of the Watergate crimes was beginning to crush him despite his stunning achievements in foreign policy. Every old sin, real and imagined, rose like a specter in the public revulsion. For Jimmy Carter it was about the time when interest rates...