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Grandmaison came to the Institute of Politics after managing Gov. Michael S. Dukakis's successful gubernatorial campaign in 1974. He was also a staffer in Sen. George S. McGovern's (D-S.D.) 1972 presidential campaign...
...publicizing them, Democratic liberals have in the past dominated the party. But they have often been overzealous and self-destructive. The liberals tore Hubert Humphrey apart in 1968 because of his prolonged support of the Viet Nam War and largely caused his defeat. Their single-minded ferocity inspired George McGovern's disastrous 1972 campaign and split the party. Who are the liberals today? Which candidate do they support in 1976? What is their influence? TIME National Political Correspondent Robert Ajemian surveyed the field and reports...
Nixon's trip roused all your old "lynch Nixon" prejudices. You didn't react the same way to McGovern's cavorting with Castro and the Viet Cong...
...damned Carter as "a liar" for not supporting him at the 1972 Democratic Convention after promising to do so-a pledge that Carter convincingly denies ever making. In the manner of Joseph McCarthy's tactics, Wallace said that there were "between 75 and 100 people who worked for McGovern," including a "card-carrying McGovern liberal," in Carter's camp. But he only named three (Fund Raiser Morris Dees, Pollster Pat Codell and Illinois Chairman of the Carter Campaign James Wall...
...least some were able to see beyond the immediate, and George McGovern ran on a commitment to stop an American outrage taking place against yellow and brown-skinned nonvoters 6000 miles away. But that effort failed 49-1, and four years of inflation, unemployment, Watergate and otherwise uninspired leadership have made us a less generous nation. It was not the fault of the candidates if even the people of that one lonely state had turned inward and seemed to be voting solely for themselves. Whether it was the anti-busing Wallaceites who carried Boston, the pro-Israel Jacksonites who delivered...