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...political education proved to be valuable. In early 1973, when Senator George McGovern's campaign organization was still a political force in Madison, Soglin leaped into the mayoral race as an independent. The campaign, which took an ugly turn when Dyke appealed to Madison's "decent people" to keep him in office, was bitter. Soglin's more statesmanlike approach gave him 52% of the vote...
Conventional wisdom now judges politicians by how fractionally they veer from the center: Barry Goldwater and George McGovern stand condemned for their inability or unwillingness to come in from the extreme; Nelson Rockefeller is studied with fascination as he carefully calibrates his evolution away from seeming too liberal for his party. Senator Charles Percy, advised to adopt a similar course, recently objected that "a swing to the right would devastate my credibility." Such maneuvering, such manufacturing of new credentials by politicians in dogged pursuit of the shifting middle, adds to the current cynicism about office seekers. It also adds...
...Harvard's Jean Mayer to assemble a group of leading nutritionists and other experts to study thoroughly domestic and global food problems. Mayer's group of roughly 100 reported last week at unusual hearings split into two panels: one group of Senators, headed by Committee Chairman George McGovern, heard the international report; another group, led by Democrat Walter Mondale of Minnesota, listened to the domestic report...
Covering a string of one-night stands is nothing new for Fischer. "It's like a presidential election campaign transplanted to an exotic clime," he says, recalling his days aboard George McGovern's rattling bus-train-airplane caravan two years ago. "But in this case, the fatigue is compounded by the difference in time zones between the U.S. and the Middle East." Fischer had expected to recover from transatlantic jet lag during the President's stopover in Salzburg, Austria, but it was in Salzburg that Secretary of State Kissinger threatened to resign, and sent the press corps...
...finally resigned. Everything Contrived. His most important role was as a resourceful if unscrupulous political operator. Colson took on the tough jobs for the President. He leaked damaging or misleading information to the press about people who criticized the President, had young men hired to pose as homosexuals supporting McGovern at the Democratic National Convention, and engineered mail campaigns in favor of Nixon's policies. He allegedly ordered his close friend E. Howard Hunt to fabricate a State Department telegram implicating President Kennedy in the assassination of South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem. At one point, according to Senate...