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...Well did he want to be the President?" wondered Arthur Herzog in McCarthy for President, his book about the 1968 campaign. "He was 'willing,' again, the right answer from the intellectual's point of view, but the wrong one from the conventional politican's. Ambiguity appeared to be a quality which, however human, Americans did not like to contemplate in a President...
Wald's enthusiasm for McGovern is almost contagious: "I think he comes to this candidacy with the cleanest hands of any politican I know," Wald says. "On all the issues I know, George McGovern's been there for a long time....He's a man who has almost singlehandedly fought for better nutrition, food-stamps, labor and welfare rights, a guaranteed minimum income, and of course...
Eisenstadt can hardly be classified as a liberal. He is a pragmatist in the grand tradition of old Boston politics who recognizes that the first duty of the politican is to get elected and who freely admits his driving ambition to achieve more political power. Still, in a few short weeks his chairmanship has resulted in a series of reforms and--more important--in a positive and businesslike atmosphere which will continue to make the Committee receptive to innovation...
...Scottish Unionist (it seems that neither the English nor the Scots want to recognize the fact that they have been under a common government since 1707). MacArthur is a tall man, somewhat bald, but very distinguished looking. He wears a typically British double-breasted suit and has a politican's ability to be both straightforward and devious at the same time and almost get away with...
...James Robinson, minister, politican, and social worker, will arrive at the University today to recruit students for a program of community improvement in Africa...