Word: pressler
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Every two years Pressler has been running for public office and winning. Now he is going for the big brass ring of American politics. Says fellow South Dakotan George McGovern: "People will think there is something in the water out there that makes us all want to run for President all the time...
...When Pressler was beginning his candidacy, a reporter asked South Dakota Republican Chairman Dan Parish what he thought. Said Parish: "I can sum it up in three words-ha, ha, ha." But the junior Senator from South Dakota does not think his candidacy is a joke. "When I ran for Congress in 1974,1 started with one volunteer. But I ran an idealistic campaign and stayed with the issues. Some day, and maybe it won't be me, someone will run an idealistic presidential campaign based on the issues...
...quixotic quest of Larry Pressler has not yet gripped the nation. He has raised $35,000 compared, say, with John Connally's approximately $8 million. This leaves him well short of the total of $100,000 from 20 states he will need to get federal matching funds. "I do not seem to send the blood of my countrymen rushing to their heads nor their hands rushing toward their checkbooks," he confesses...
Some of his colleagues in the Senate are laughing at Pressler and his vaulting ambition. True, the Senate is a breeding ground for presidential candidates, and ambitious men are not unknown in its halls. Many look around at their colleagues and decide, in the words of one incumbent: "If he's good enough to run for President, then, by God, so am I." But Larry Pressler has not even had time to take a good look around. He has yet to finish his freshman year...
...press conference continued, Pressler rattled on about why he should be elected. Outside the large windows of the tennis club, players looked in curiously from time to time to see what the lack of fuss was all about. Finally it was over. Larry Pressler set off to conquer other worlds, and Alexander Hamilton pulled the plug on his gasohol still...