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...position at all, about to take control of a scrappy. He is a Republican by registration and profession, a former state representative and perennial unsuccessful political candidate (He ran for Lt. Governor in 1970, for Congress against Father Dtinan in 1972). In 1972 he supported Richard Nixon against George McGovern. But tonight, barring a thoroughly unlikely change of heart. Real Paper staff members--who collectively own the paper--will vote to sell it to Linsky's friend Ralph Fine, a Boston lawyer Fine has no journalistic experience and no Citizen Kane fantasies, and he freely admits that "basically, the editorial...
...hour-long talk--organized by Citizens for Participation in Political Action, liberal democrats instrumental in bringing about the 1972 McGovern victory in Massachusetts--centered on the economy and foreign policy...
This article is adapted from a speech given at the Catholic Youth Convention in El Paso, Texas, last October 24. It was entered in the April 21 Congressional Record by Sen. George S. McGovern (D.S.D...
Financially set, Dees turned to law and eventually the S.P.L.C. On the side, he used his direct-mail savvy to raise money for politicians, among them George McGovern, for whose 1972 campaign his mailings raked in $20 million. Dees plays as he works-swimming as if a shark were after him, riding with the recklessness of a professional rodeo cowboy, which he once was part-time. But the son of a white Alabama farmer reserves his greatest passion for the cause of the South's blacks...
There are some commendable small corrections and additions here. Safire reveals that Nixon impulsively wrote a wholly unpublicized and touching note to the son of Senator Tom Eagleton, praising the father's "poise and just plain guts" when McGovern dropped him as a vice-presidential candidate. Despite the book's length, Safire's sprightly style keeps the story moving. The man who fed Spiro Agnew such alliterations as "nattering nabobs of negativism" strains to avoid cliches, and the struggle is often entertaining...