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After graduation from Law School in 1968, Schlesinger founded a magazine called The New Democrat, a political monthly to the left of the Democratic party. Later, he worked as a speech writer for George McGovern's presidential campaign, wrote a book about that experience, became a staff writer for Time, and took a year of to help Sen. Edward Kennedy '54 (D -Mass.) in his 1980 bid for the Presidency...
...today is hardly the same man who governed the Hub in the late '60s and early '70s. That mayor twice defeated prominent busing opponent Louise Day Hicks, ran for governor in 1970 with Michael Dukakis as his running mate, was nearly handed the vice presidential spot on George McGovern's ticket in 1972 and went way out on a limb during the 1975 busing crisis trying to persuade irate Bostonians to accept the court ordered integration plan Today's Mayor White, on the other hand, isn't really more conservative--he's still supporting Dukakis in this year's gubernatorial...
...history chokes Podhoretz's imagination; in his pachydermish outlook. George McGovern is not much more than another Henry Wallace, and the early 1970s Congressional inquiries into the CIA are just about the same as the McCarthy hearings. This antiquarian outlook keeps Podhoretz from under-standing that the opposition to the war spring from something more than Communist tendencies or native. The unstated backbone of Podhoretz's argument is that there were really only two possibilities in Vietnam--Stalinist totalitarianism, or American-backed authoritarianism. What the New Left was saying--correctly--was that neither of those was any good, neither...
WHETHER AMERICANS SHOULD have been in Vietnam and other Asian countries is a question that has stirred seemingly endless controversy. The Podhoretz's and the McGovern's will probably be arguing in their graves about the propriety and morality of sending U.S. troops to those far-off parts of the world...
...Maureen McGovern, 32, pop singer who switched to Broadway to perform in Gilbert and Sullivan's The Pirates of Penzance, on the career of a recording star: "You're only as good as your last two minutes and 47 seconds...