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...Washington these days, there's a feeling of political deja vu. The time: 1972. The candidates: George McGovern and Richard Nixon. President Nixon was headed for a landslide re-election. McGovern was assailing the President on ethics and trying to get some traction on a little-known scandal called Watergate...
...Saturday, a group including Harvard undergraduates will door-drop voter guides comparing the environmental records of Republican U.S. representative Peter Blute and his challenger in the Massachusetts third congressional district, Democrat Jim McGovern...
Organizers estimate that if they can sway 2,000 votes in this tight race they can deliver the election to McGovern, whom they view as the "greener" candidate...
...before the Civil War." Said Clinton has put more troops in action than any other American president. Said Clinton's administration is one that "gave you a very big tax cut." UNLIKELY HEROES: Al D'Amato, Nancy Kassebaum, John McCain, Warren Rudman, 500 economists and 7 Nobel laureates. George McGovern, Abe Ribicoff, Edward M. Kennedy '54-'56, Robert Byrd, Landell Shakespeare. STOCK PHRASES: "21st century"--At least 16 times "Taxes" or "Clinton tax increase"--28 times 10.5 million new jobs--7 times "Liberal" or "liberal elite"--13 times, including a friendly reference to McGovern Newt Gingrich--5 times Medicare, Medicaid...
...Agnew was also the forerunner of the Richard Nixon collapse. The Watergate break-in occurred in June 1972, as the Nixon-Agnew ticket was on its way to a landslide victory over George McGovern and Sargent Shriver. A month after the second Nixon-Agnew Inaugural, it came out that a grand jury in Baltimore was investigating Agnew on charges of bribery and tax evasion dating from his earlier career in Maryland...