Word: mcgoverns
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Ernest F. Hollings-are surrounded by experienced party operatives, veterans of the last four Democratic campaigns. Others, like Colorado Sen. Gary W. Hart and Sen. Alan M. Cranston (D-Calif.), are stressing fresh blood, pulling in young people with high energy but little campaign background. Former Sen. George S. McGovern and former Florida Gov. Reubin D. Askey are relying on home-state buddies and old supporters; the Rev. Jesse L. Jackson is building a team of minority leaders who recently helped propel several Blacks to mayoral posts around the country...
Unlike the highly professional Mondale and Glenn organizations, McGovern is relying on a close-meshed, down-home team to propel him into his desired third or fourth place in New Hampshire. The man who runs the machine, George Cunningham, also ran McGovern's two congressional and five senatorial campaigns. A fellow South Dakotan, Cunningham first met the candidate in 1954, working side-by-side with McGovern in South Dakota's Young Democrats organization. He hasn't left the Senator's side since. "George McGovern and I go back a long way, to common roots and experience in the same state...
...McGovern is also, quite literally, keeping his campaign in the family-his two daughters, Mary and Ann, manage the organization's finance and office administration respectively, and "provide a lot of direction at the heart of the campaign," Cunningham says...
...McGovern accused President Reagan of being "tragically ill-informed" about Soviet-American attitudes. He acknowledged that Reagan is well-intentioned, but charged that the President's hardline policies--particularly in the area of nuclear weapons--have brought the United States to the point of potential annihilation...
...Soviets have the same desire to live as we do," McGovern said. "Russian mothers and fathers weep for their children and are not inhuman monsters...