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...week's defeat marked the end of the congressional road. She will undoubtedly hit the trail again, since politics are a family legacy. Her father, a judge and political boss in South Boston, told Louise on his deathbed "to take care of my people." Last week, it was Joe Moakley who knew how to take care of all the people in the 9th District including Louise Day Hicks...
...DISTRICT Congressional race overshadowed the national election for supporters of John "Joe" Moakley as they converged by the hundreds at the Statler-Hilton Ballroom on election night. The McGovern debacle and those "other 49 states" were preempted for the evening as all televisions in the ballroom were tuned to local elections. Anticipating a long-sought victory, Moakley supporters left no room for defeatist sentiment at their gathering...
...Hicks-Moakley contest was actually a valid testing ground for the 1972 Democratic Party program. As a long-standing opponent of busing in Boston schools, Hicks represented the old-style conservatism. Throughout the campaign she failed to clarify her platform beyond "you know where I stand" or "performance counts." Moakley, by contrast, pushed a package of specific Democratic Party reforms...
...Moakley victory would then give impetus to "the new politics" not only in the 9th, but in Congress as well. Coming from an Irish working class neighborhood and speaking a moderate-to-progressive dialect that also attracted upper-income groups, Moakley provided an essential link between the liberal coalition in Congress and the often-distant object of its programs, the American working man. Moakley thus put forth a program designed to "bring the people together" and his supporters' election night gathering was a convincing Phase I of the new 9th togetherness...
...LUCK O' THE Irish" and a sense of inevitable victory pervaded the Statler-Hilton ballroom as supporters watched the precinct-by-precinct progress of "our Joey's" challenge to Hicks. Moakley and his supporters were rolling in four-leaf clovers by the end of the night as official election returns confirmed his victory...