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...theatrical domination of the press and TV, it helped turn a majority of Americans against the war. Probably its most enduring effect will be cultural rather than political?the development of alternative lifestyles, for example. Much of the political energy of the movement was subsumed by the McGovern campaign. But for many months now, with the ending of the draft, the old activism has been dead. In many, a sullen kind of privatism has replaced the formerly furious idealism. In a sense, the war has ended by producing a basically antipolitical generation. Observes Political Scientist Richard Young: "More and more...
ONCE, George McGovern had hoped that his stand on Viet Nam, above anything else, would carry him to victory in November. But wildly improbable as it seemed earlier, Richard Nixon gradually made the issue his own and emerged in the popular mind as the peace candidate. It was, after all, the President who had been wheeling and dealing with the Communist bosses in Peking and Moscow and had kept Henry Kissinger in constant motion on the road to work a settlement. Then, last week, whatever momentum McGovern may have been gathering came to a halt again when the White House...
There was Nixon, in one of his infrequent campaign swings, confidently assuring a friendly crowd in Huntington, W. Va., that the remaining obstacles to a peace settlement would soon be overcome. And there was McGovern, darting about in a plane festooned with Halloween black and orange crepe paper, first casting doubt on the peace rumors, then gracefully if a little grimly saying that he hoped they were finally true. He argued that peace could have been achieved four years ago, that the antiwar movement deserved the credit for forcing the President to conciliate...
Round the country, McGovern workers, dejected for most of a campaign marred by blunders and bad breaks, had begun to get the scent, not of victory to be sure, but of some improvement. Small contributions were coming in at a brisk rate through the mails. There was something in the air that caused a middle-class homeowner in Burbank, a jar of olives in hand for his martini, not to close the door in the face of the earnest, shaggy McGovern canvassers but to wish them well. In Chicago's 47th ward, a housewife accepted a bumper sticker from...
Creeping Thing. McGovern workers in Chicago were confident, despite adverse polls, that their man had a fighting chance now that they had Mayor Richard Daley on their side, lock, stock and poll watchers. They prided themselves on their realism, a fact verified by a Daleyite who was prepared to hate the kids until one showed up "so full of vim and vigor and so willing to listen to my advice that I guess I softened." As Columnist Mike Royko mused, Daley, after his humiliation at the Democratic Convention, "has to enjoy seeing all those admiring liberal faces looking...