Word: mcgoverns
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...McGovern-Fraser reforms of 1972, initiated by the Democrats and copied by the Republicans, were intended to open the process to a greater number of people, especially women, minorities and the young. But the new rules have made the selection by caucus so complicated that more and more states have substituted primaries. This year 37 are holding primaries, an expensive and enervating ordeal for candidates that is almost as burdensome as the presidency itself...
...additional campaigning does not necessarily clarify the complex issues or reveal the candidate. Says Senator George McGovern, one of the chief authors of the nominating reforms: "The candidate isn't under the close personal scrutiny that a handful of bosses used to give him. I have to admit that the more primaries there are, the more difficult is the process." The winner of the 1976 marathon, Jimmy Carter, was not really much better known at the end of the campaign than he was at the beginning, and his stands on the issues remained murky-calculatedly...
...number of years the 1970s were the 1960s-at least until, say, the fall of Saigon in the spring of 1975. The '60s, which are often said to have begun on Nov. 22, 1963, lingered messily into the '70s, through Kent State, the Pentagon papers case, the McGovern campaign, the long, slow-motion parallel collapses of the Nixon presidency and the South Vietnamese Republic. The Symbionese Liberation Army and the kidnaping of Patty Hearst also belonged in spirit...