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...SECRETARY OF DEFENSE: Wright, 48, first met Clinton when bothwere young liberal idealists working in her native Texas on the 1972 George McGovern campaign. In the mid-1970s she gravitated to Washington, where she ran the Women's National Education Fund, recruiting women candidates for office. After Clinton was defeated for re-election as Governor in 1980, he called upon Wright to run his comeback crusade. She accepted instantly because, as she recalls, "it was always important to me that strong political feminists have relationships with strong male politicians. And Bill Clinton has no problem with strong women...
...fratricidal as Democrats this month in Houston. There is an eerie symmetry at work. Jeane Kirkpatrick, in her book justifying the neoconservatives' abandonment of the Democratic Party, described the 1972 Democratic Convention as out of touch with ordinary Americans. The New Presidential Elite argued that Democrats under McGovern were more interested in ideological purity than in winning, more concerned with being "correct" than with being inclusive. It was a party of rectitude and litmus tests. By contrast, the Republicans spread a big tent: "Less intense, less holistic ideologically, and deeply attached to party, the cultural conservative focused more on building...
...similarity of the two candidates' positions may be Bush's biggest problem. Republicans have had a lock on foreign policy ever since McGovern and Vietnam swung the Democrats sharply to the left. Voters consistently found them too soft to trust with the nation's security. But Clinton is attempting to erase that stigma by aligning himself closely to the middle. Both he and Bush are internationalists, both are willing to use force if necessary, neither is an ideologue. Their differences on specific issues tend to be in degree rather than in kind: a matter of a few dollars more...
...points at the time our own convention began. Anything worse, and we'd likely lose." By this standard, Bush is flirting with disaster; the latest polls have Clinton ahead by at least 20 points. "At the rate we're going we may end up having to do the McGovern spot," says a Republican consultant. At the end of his disastrous 1972 campaign, George McGovern ran a TV commercial in which a conflicted citizen considered his choice in the voting booth: "Either way it won't be a disaster," the man muttered to himself. "So I'll be voting for Nixon...
...Sometimes," says the G.O.P. consultant, "all you've got is the 'lesser of two evils' argument. McGovern did it kind of nicely." Yes, he did, but he lost...