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Nixon was quite positive that an agreement was unnecessary for the election; its benefit would be too marginal to warrant any risks. Haldeman thought that an agreement was a potential liability; he was certain that Democratic Candidate George McGovern's support had been reduced to fanatics who would not vote for Nixon even if he arranged the Second Coming. On the other hand, an agreement might disquiet conservative supporters. The Viet Nam negotiations, in short, were not used to affect the election; the election was used to accelerate the negotiations...
...judge, who did not explain his ruling, apparently agreed with Harvard's lawyer in the case, Lane McGovern '46. "The natural wording and purposes of the act show that it calls for a three-quarters vote, it is construed to mean a three-quarters affirmative vote, and that is how it is across the country," McGovern said yesterday...
...McGovern predicted before the ruling was handed down that the judge might take as long as three weeks to consider the arguments...
...judging whether a candidate has done as well "as expected." This can be unfair, as it was to Senator Edmund Muskie in New Hampshire in 1972. Long before the primaries, a Boston Globe poll prematurely "gave" Muskie 65% of the vote; on election day, though Muskie beat George McGovern, 46% to 37%, the press proclaimed McGovern the real winner...
...money. Debts forced Dolan to suspend his own $2,000-a-month salary this ;ummer, and he is trying to raise $700,000 for the opening shots of his "Target '80" effort to defeat five prominent Democratic Senators: Frank Church of Idaho, Alan Cranston of California, George McGovern of South Dakota, John Culver of Iowa and Birch Bayh of Indiana...