Word: politicians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...convinced McGovern has made a grave mistake and breached his faith not only with Thomas Eagleton but also with regard to his own candidacy and our nation. Senator Eagleton's strength, wit and courage demonstrated his competence as a politician, his ability in adverse situations and the inequity of dropping him from the ticket. We are Democrats, against the war and opposed to the current Administration, but tonight we feel cheated and denied. While we will vote for McGovern in November, we refuse to work actively for the national ticket and are therefore returning our registration and campaign material...
...just doesn't have it. His personality leaves me cold." If the campaign turns out to focus on personality, McGovern's chances apparently would improve. "He doesn't doubletalk; he knows how to make himself a part of the people rather than just a politician," argues Billing Clerk Lynda Bialy, a young voter in Buffalo, N.Y. Surprisingly, only one out of seven who expect to vote for McGovern will do so on the basis of any specific issue, although inconsistently, two-thirds of the panel predict that the campaign will be fought primarily on issues...
KEVIN WHITE, 42, mayor of Boston, on McGovern's original list of vice-presidential prospects but dropped because Massachusetts delegates threatened to boycott the convention if McGovern picked him. They objected because White was a pro-Muskie, old-school politician. He would give the ticket an Eastern, urban balance...
...haven't been in South Dakota. I have been in Los Angeles and Honolulu and San Francisco, and I feel a different mood. Politics isn't a science like physics, where you put things in a beaker and measure them. What makes or breaks a politician is how he perceives the public pulse, the public mood. I'm confident as I can be that the public is with me. I'm not living in a dreamworld. I know the stakes are high, but I firmly believe...
...habit of not being discouraged by our present affairs." For Lenin it was "the gymnasium of the mind," for Einstein a demon "that holds its master in its own bonds, fetters and in some ways shapes his spirit." Said H.G. Wells: "You have, let us say, a promising politician, a rising artist that you want to destroy. Dagger or bomb are archaic and unreliable. But teach him, inoculate him with chess. It annihilates...