Word: ribicoffs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...post to contact some of his "old sources" on the convention floor. In this "new" convention, old sources were not as common as they used to be, but Gart was able to return with a secret "short list" of vice-presidential candidates: U.A.W.'s Leonard Woodcock, Senators Abraham Ribicoff of Connecticut and Thomas Eagleton of Missouri. Promptly, a reporter and photographer were dispatched to cover each of these three vice-presidential possibilities. As a result, Correspondent John Stacks was at Ribicoffs side in his hotel suite when McGovern phoned the next day to ask him to be his running...
...Hart in Washington to work out the floor strategy. The candidate had issued one vital order: the floor leaders for the fight should not all be youthful members of McGovern's own staff but battle-tested convention veterans. Among the 23 chosen were Senators Frank Church, Fred Harris, Abraham Ribicoff and Gaylord Nelson, Wisconsin Governor Pat Lucey, South Dakota Lieutenant Governor William Dougherty, and Hart and Frank Mankiewicz...
...series of meetings next day, some 25 new possibilities were suggested, including three blacks and several women. The list was pared to Lawrence O'Brien, Sargent Shriver, Kevin White, Wisconsin Governor Pat Lucey, Connecticut Senator Abraham Ribicoff, Minnesota Senator Walter Mondale and Missouri Senator Tom Eagleton. McGovern was looking for a man who had identification with urban affairs, ability, the stature to assume the presidency, and a national rather than a regional appeal. Catholicism was understood to be helpful, if not vital...
...nominee put out a feeler to Mondale. The Minnesotan let McGovern know that he wanted to run for re-election to the Senate. Next he called Ribicoff, who also demurred, preferring, at his age, 62, to remain in the Senate. Again McGovern tried, this time telephoning Wisconsin's Senator Gaylord Nelson; again he was rebuffed. Nelson said that he had promised his wife he would remain in the Senate. During yet another afternoon call, McGovern informed Kennedy that he was still serious about Kevin White, who had already told McGovern he was available. Delighted, the mayor made tentative arrangements...
Undertaken at the request of Senator Abraham Ribicoff of Connecticut, the Accounting Office's report is a damning document. Its conclusions are based entirely on the DBS's own records and show that the agency consistently released vaccines that it knew were of dubious quality. Some of them even failed to match the strength claimed by their manufacturers. DBS did not reject a single lot of flu vaccine, although some tested out at less than 1 % of purported potency. Nor did it stop the sale of weak vaccines that were known to produce annoying side effects. One drug...