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Last week Chavez derided Mikulski as a "San Francisco-style, George McGovern Democrat. People are going to reject her kind of liberalism." The Mikulski camp has countered with a charge that Chavez has "no moral anchor," a reference to her party switching. Nothing in these bareknuckle exchanges smacks of what journalists used to call petticoat politics...
...advice had little effect. Kennedy did propose rate cuts that were enacted after his assassination, but he also introduced the investment tax credit, on the theory that the tax code should promote industrial modernization, a prime example of manipulating the code for purposes other than raising revenue. George McGovern pledged some tax reforms during his 1972 campaign for the presidency; those promises were buried under Richard Nixon's 49-state landslide. Four years later Jimmy Carter railed at a tax system he called a "disgrace to the human race." Among other things, he cemented the three-martini lunch in American...
...technical challenges were also substantial and often without precedent. Who knew, for instance, how to remove built-up layers of paint and coal tar from the statue's delicate 100-year-old copper interior? The Lehrer-McGovern construction-management company has had to manage a considerable logistical feat: on Liberty Island alone, they coordinate the work of four different architectural and engineering firms, dozens of individual contractors and, during the 2 1/2 years of construction, some 500 craftsmen and hard-hat workers...
During the 1972 presidential campaign, the Democratic candidate George McGovern discovered something about the American dream. Speaking to some workers in a rubber factory near Akron, he made a promise that he thought would make him popular with blue-collar workers. He said that he would increase inheritance taxes so the rich could leave very little to their families after their death. To McGovern's surprise, he was loudly booed. The workers didn't like the idea. They wanted to leave as much money as possible to their families. It was part of the American dream to make the next...
...were insipid liberals," says John Buckley, 29, who went from being a rock critic for the Soho News in Manhattan to conservative Congressman Jack Kemp's press secretary. "The only way to inject any energy was to rebel from the right." Says Peggy Noonan, 35, who voted for George McGovern in 1972 but now writes speeches for President Reagan: "We are idealists without illusions." Of course, many more Baby Boomers--indeed, the large and silent majority--show little or no sign of social activism or ideological commitment and remain cynical about the promises of politicians...