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Abram Chayes '43, professor of Law, the director of George McGovern's foreign policy task forces in 1972, says he was appointed to Carter's foreign policy group partly because he supported Carter in the Massachusetts primary. (Not many others...
Abram Chayes '43, professor of Law, the director of George McGovern's foreign policy task forces in 1972, says he was appointed to Carter's foreign policy group partly because he supported Carter in the Massachusetts primary. (Not many others...
During a stop in Washington, Carter got the bluff blessing of AFL-CIO President George Meany, who sat out the 1972 campaign because he could not stomach George McGovern. "Our candidate," vowed Meany, "will get the full backing of the best political machine in the country." There already were strong signs that labor would deliver for the Carter-Mondale ticket?not only in votes but in voter registration. The well-organized United Auto Workers?1.4 million members across the country?is revving up. Ohio labor leaders are working closely with the Democratic organization. Says Thomas Bradley, president...
Even so, Carter could be hurt by the traditionally low turnout of black voters. Four years ago, blacks gave almost 90% of their ballots to George McGovern, but only 52% of voting-age blacks went to the polls, compared with 65% of the whites. About 57% of the country's 15 million black adults are registered, v. 70% of the whites. Through registration drives in black neighborhoods, black leaders intend to sign up a million new voters and increase the black turnout to 60%-or 9 million in all. In this way, they hope to provide Carter...
WELLS COLLEGE (515 women; Aurora, N.Y.). At the 1972 Democratic Convention, Frances Tarlton ("Sissy") Farenthold, fresh from a defeat in the Texas gubernatorial primary, was nominated for the vice-presidential slot on the McGovern ticket in a symbolic gesture by the Women's Caucus. Her being chosen as the first female of Wells' thirteen presidents, however, was anything but symbolic. The school, which has a modest endowment of $8 million, needed someone of note to help boost sagging enrollment. On the job since March, Farenthold, 49, has made this fall's entering class the largest...