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...book. Most important, Levison is decisive on a central matter: is the present-day working class potentially revolutionary or only potentially liberal? Ultimately, Levison says liberal in the short run and perhaps socialist and revolutionary in the long run. This point is significant, because Levison is a McGovern liberal, and through the book's serialization in The New Yorker it might come to have high currency among the middle-class Left. As a whole. Levison attempts to provide the basis for a worker-affluent liberal alliance; his advocacy of socialism as the completion of American democracy shows the response...
...Senator George McGovern has proposed a total inheritance tax to end concentrations of wealth such as your family's. What is your feeling...
...make a comment first. Mr. McGovern spent close to $1.80 per person in his state in his campaign. My highest expenditure in New York was 370 per person. I don't think that Mr. McGovern really, when he gets back to Congress, is going to propose a bill to carry that...
...buggers, as well as a victim of the outrageous theory that he had known about the Watergate break-in in advance and permitted it in order to embarrass the Republican Party. Still, O'Brien confesses, "the three worst months of my life-a nightmare" were spent in George McGovern's dismal 1972 campaign...
...None of this would have happened if Nixon hadn't resigned," Handlin comments, "but even McGovern would be better than...