Word: mcgoverns
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...memorial imitated life. Virginia's Senator John Warner and Maryland's Senator Charles Mathias heard distant bugle calls and fought all the way for the monument. Illinois' meddlesome Congressman Henry Hyde carelessly spread misinformation and doubt, impugning the sponsors of the idea. Democratic Presidential Candidate George McGovern, who ran in 1972 and was one of the first and most vehement opponents of the war, rallied behind the campaign. Texan Ross Perot intruded with ideas for bigger and grander edifices and statues. With little fanfare, Nancy Reagan penned thank-you notes to hundreds of the donors among...
These party moderates, though by no means a bloc of dogmatists, agree on a range of proposals that, taken together, constitute a bold departure from any of the conventional political wisdoms currently holding away. Gary Hart shed his radical image left over from his days as George McGovern's presidential campaign manager to emerge as a careful, skeptical, concerned student of America's defense needs. He contends that the American armed forces rely far too much on expensive, impractical high-technology weaponry too complicated to operate and obsolete before it can come into general use. His solution avoids the naive...
...most political observers it is almost tries to assert that Massachusetts is one of the most liberal states in the nation. One only has to mention the reception former Sen. George McGovern (D-S.D.), victim of a landslide defeat in the 1972 presidential election, received here after the election. "Nixon 49, America I" the buttons of cheering supporters read, proudly boasting that the Commonwealth was the only state that voted for the liberal Democrat...
...Weicker of Connecticut. But the moral crusaders may discover that many of the freshmen they helped elect are now less anxious to do battle for conservative social causes than they were when they were on the campaign trail. Says Senator James Abdnor of South Dakota, who defeated Democrat George McGovern partly by stressing social issues: "I resent that the New Right says they elected me. I'm not part of their crusade." His attitude on dealing with the proposals: "Let's get them over with...
...Democrats rose in righteous wrath to assail the President. "It's an outrage," fumed House Speaker Carl Albert. "It's so fantastic as to be almost beyond belief," stormed AFL-CIO President George Meany. "A violation of privacy," snapped Nixon's defeated 1972 election opponent, George McGovern. And when Nixon's defenders suggested that he was only doing what John F. Kennedy had quietly practiced, Historian Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., a Kennedy friend and onetime aide, found it "inconceivable" that J.F.K. had bugged his visitors. Schlesinger insisted haughtily: "It was not the sort of thing Kennedy...