Word: nader
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Eagleton had happened to George McGovern, and he had to find an image all over again. An in trying to find replacement for Eagleton. McGovern attempted to restore the aura of a truth crusade to his campaign. He made a little publicized offer of the vice presidency to Ralph Nader, the only uncorruptible man in America, and the only man who could have put the McGovern campaign back where it started--"above politics." But like most of McGovern's other top choices. Nader refused the offer...
...Even Nader has not yet read all 486 reports, which range from 20 to 30 pages each. But the exhaustiveness of the project, and its inherent strengths and weaknesses, are clearly limned in a few choice examples...
...enough people were to read the report, the Senator from Maine would be a long way toward recovery from the blows he suffered during his disastrous presidential primary campaign. The profile not only corrects the "wishy-washy" image he picked up last spring but also contradicts an earlier Nader study-group report that accused Muskie of foot dragging on environmental issues. This time around, Nader's researcher gave "Mr. Clean" high marks on environment and almost everything else. He is, the report notes, "a crack prosecuting attorney" possessed of "native intelligence," courage and an ability to weave a kind...
...Mississippi Senator John Stennis' profile represents one of the Nader report's major lapses. It points out that Stennis has a reputation as a modest pork barreler, and that despite his role as chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, Mississippi has only four military installations and three defense contractors. Nevertheless, the report suggests darkly that Stennis "may be taking the pork back to his economically beleaguered state." Although the report writer eloquently describes the poverty in which many Mississippians live, he seems to resent the fact that HEW and the Department of Agriculture respectively pumped...
...balance, however, Nader's sweeping view of Congress is both useful and fascinating. If nothing else, his appraisals of the country's legislators should start voters thinking about the wisdom of returning some of their Senators and Representatives to office...