Word: politicians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Scheer, his voice made hollow by several thousand miles of telephone wire from San Francisco warns, "He's a sharp, cunning, ruthless politician. And if you buy that mystic stuff, you're crazy...
...heard a chilling story a little while ago," says an old California politician. "You know how the California primary's gonna go? Here's what I hear: Frank Church and Brown split the liberal vote; Scoop Jackson and Brown split the moderate vote; Jimmy Carter and Brown split the moderate vote; George Wallace and Brown split the redneck vote. That's 50 per cent for Brown and 12 per cent for everyone else and that's the future right there on the table...
...Crap!" cries Scheer. "That guy never reads a book. He's a politician. He's...he's..." Silence on the other end of the phone for a moment. "He's Sam Huntington! He's Pat Moynihan!" Now Scheer, who as an Institute of Politics guest at Harvard led the famous demonstration which kept Robert MacNamara captive for hours, is livid. The phone falls. "You don't believe me? Read the interview again. He's a return to the politics of the fifties, the paranoia of the Cold War, enemies everywhere, too much dissent. I know he believes that there...
Obviously, the black judgment of Carter is not unanimous, and is subject to change. And since Carter's appeal crosses racial lines, it may suggest that black and white constituencies are no longer so opposite as has been supposed. Sums up Harvey Williams, a black politician: "The blacks are getting tired of all the promises by Northern liberals. They respect Carter's sound position. It's a matter of credibility-in all groups, including the blacks...
...GEORGE OF THE CENTER. Leonard James Callaghan, 64, is the London bookies' favorite (9 to 4 last week) to succeed Wilson, and many politicians agree. A shrewd political strategist, Callaghan has two main assets as a potential party leader: broad popularity and the "bottom," as the British call it, to put renegades in their place. "Sunny Jim" is also the only politician among the eggheads in the party's highest councils whose background reflects that of most Labor voters. The son of a Royal Navy chief petty officer, Callaghan quit school at 15 to support his widowed mother...