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Ford was particularly incensed with opposition among some liberals in Congress. Democratic Senator George McGovern of South Dakota claimed that "90% of the Vietnamese refugees would be better off going back to their own land" because only "a handful of government leaders were in any real danger of reprisals." Democratic Representative Elizabeth Holtzman of New York urged the U.S. to bar "persons who may have engaged in misappropriating U.S. funds, run tiger cages or carried out the torture of political prisoners...
...Viet Nam War seems endless in its capacity to generate unpleasant surprises. The latest is the unexpected hostility to accepting Vietnamese refugees into the U.S. It has surfaced suddenly with considerable fervor, and for a variety of often contradictory reasons, all over the country. Senator McGovern, the 1972 presidential peace candidate, says: "I think the Vietnamese are better off in Viet Nam, including the orphans." The manager of a John Birch Society bookstore near the new refugee tent city at Eglin Air Force Base in Florida is afraid of "tropical diseases floating around." Right-wingers worry that there might...
Frank Mankiewicz is a journalist and lawyer-as well as former campaign manager for George McGovern-and he makes an insistent point: it was not the press that brought Nixon down, but the law-respect for it and for the kind of step-by-step preparation and pursuit that due process requires. Mankiewicz is especially sharp at pointing out the lies and equivocations of Nixon's TV statements and press conferences...
...York Yankees, was the eye opener. Steinbrenner had been a stalwart Democratic fund raiser during the 1968 campaign. Soon he was being investigated by IRS, and the Justice Department. "They are holding the lumber over my head," Steinbrenner told O'Neill when Tip asked him for contributions for McGovern...
Perhaps the most interesting thing about Lyon is not his musical work alone, but the way he maintains along with it simultaneous footholds in politics and academics. Lyon helped organize a rally in Harvard Stadium for George McGovern early in his freshman year and worked last summer as special consultant for media affairs to Washington's Mayor Walter Washington. The difficulty of being respectable in both the political and musical worlds at once disturbs Lyon...