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...members have been prominent in organizations like the Peace Action Coalition and especially the Student Mobilization Committee. Columnists Rowland Evans and Robert Novak, among others, have claimed that the SWP controlled SMC's large Washington demonstrations...
Since 80% of the delegates were first-timers, some veteran political reporters found themselves bereft of old-line power-broker sources. "I've been covering these things for 20 years," complained Columnist Robert Novak, "and I don't know a soul here." But Novak and others had only to look away from the sea of fresh faces on the floor to find old hands like Frank Mankiewicz, Pierre Salinger and Richard Dougherty at McGovern headquarters, eager to brief newsmen on plans and tactics. "This convention's easier to cover," maintained Thomas Ross of the Chicago Sun-Times...
Otherwise, very little new ground was broken in the discussion. Most of the excitement was provided by Robert Novak of the Chicago Sun-Times, one of four panelists questioning the candidates, who hounded McGovern on his tax reform plans and pressed Humphrey on the former Vice Presidents "enthusiasm" for the war in Vietnam...
...Novak accused McGovern of trying to appease businessmen to running an advertisement in The Wall Street Journal that promised that McGovern's tax program for big business wouldn't be as harsh as it sounded in the press...
...next question, Novak asked Humphrey why he had supported President Johnson so happily and why he had waited until California to bring up the issue of McGovern's planned defense cuts. California is dotted with many defense-related industries...