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...Eleanor McGovern...
...outraged by Ford's program, he remains deeply worried that the Democrats will play politics with the problem, "and load this depression onto the other party." Indeed, Meany has been disenchanted with the Democrats, labor's traditional friends, since the party's convention nominated George McGovern...
...MacLaine is an enviable example of the liberated quadraphonic life: a film star who could command $800,000 a movie, a wife and mother who appears to operate a successful open marriage, and a citizen who served as a delegate to the Democratic National Convention and one of George McGovern's most energetic campaigners...
...that a different figure is needed to represent the party in 1976. With increased public distrust of politicians, the nomination of an old-guard politican of the Hubert Humphrey variety would be politically risky. But so, too, would the nomination of a truly unknown candidate, like Rubin Askew. A McGovern liberal would again split the party, as would a Jackson conservative. So why not, Democrats ask, nominate a clean but experienced, pragmatic but popular, middle-of-the-road candidate? Why not nominate Edmund Muskie for President...
...Democratic Party, too, Muskie has received strong support, especially considering the number of candidates (31 in the latest Gallup poll) with which the non-candidate from Maine has had to compete. Meanwhile, Muskie has retained a low negative rating, proving more acceptable to both Democrats and Independents than Wallace, McGovern, or even Humphrey...