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...helped make him the first Republican Governor in the commonwealth since Reconstruction. But this year those same conservative Democrats asked Holton to support as his replacement former Democratic Governor Mills E. Godwin Jr., 58, who defeated Holton in 1965 and is now at blistering odds with the McGovern leftists who have seized his former party. Holton agreed because there were no promising Republican candidates. Godwin, who has been referring to Republicans as "you people" and the party as "your party," more or less joined their ranks when he finally managed in his acceptance speech to describe himself to the G.O.P...
Democrats, who grew fratricidal with the collapse of the Byrd machine (Byrd Sr. died in 1966, and in 1970 his son won re-election to the U.S. Senate as an Independent), have redoubled their bloodletting since the resounding McGovern defeat. McGovernites now control an estimated 60-70% of the party's positions in Virginia. This year's gubernatorial candidate could have been, with only a nod of his head, Lieutenant Governor Henry Howell, 52, a friend of the new McGovern forces and a shrewd populist with a liberal stance on race and broad support from organized labor...
...often-heard quips as "impeachment with honor," "bail to the Chief," and "Nixon has a staff infection." "In the twelve years I've been at the Shoreham," says Russell, "I've never had anything like the past two months. The audiences love the whole spy thing, like McGovern picked up a grapefruit and heard a dial tone...
...office." Far from alienating his audiences with Watergate gags, says Frye, "the only danger I've had is not going far enough. If I hold back, the audience is disappointed." Frye has already recorded an album of Watergate humor, in which he mimics the voices of Nixon, George McGovern, Hubert Humphrey, Billy Graham and others. In one sequence, Frye's Nixon visits the Godfather for help. "You want justice?" asks the Godfather. "Not necessarily," replies Nixon...
WGAR, a Cleveland rock station, promoted a Watergate Weekend, with local disk jockeys supplying musical-answer "interviews." "Senator McGovern, what would you have said if you had known your office was bugged...