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McGovern has termed the committee's action "an incredible, cynical, rotten political steal." He said at the time he "couldn't possibly support a convention that would sustain this kind of shabby, back-room dealing. I wouldn't have any part of any convention nominee who would support this...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: McGovern Woos O'Brien, Meany | 7/3/1972 | See Source »

...know the nauseous smell of rotten shrimp paste...

Author: By James D. Blum, | Title: A Portrait of Grief and Pride | 5/3/1972 | See Source »

...Among people, he was an ebullient man with a trumpeting voice and a long, bushy beard-generous, energetic, brash. But he suffered acutely from alcoholism and remorse over what he considered a messy, misspent life. He did not forgive himself: "At fifty-five half-famous & effective, I still feel rotten about myself," he wrote in one of his poems...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Last Prayers | 5/1/1972 | See Source »

Nunn appeared as a surprise witness to describe Mrs. Beard as "obsessed about losing her job" at the party and as one who "drinks quite heavily." He said that Mrs. Beard repeatedly tried to get Mitchell to talk about ITT, claiming the company was getting "a damn rotten deal." But each time Mitchell brushed her off, Nunn said, and Mitchell told her that "he didn't want to hear any more about it." Then Mrs. Beard became ill, collapsed in her motel room and had to be revived. In her memo, however, Mrs. Beard claimed she learned, partly through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ADMINISTRATION: Slugging It out over the ITT Affair | 3/20/1972 | See Source »

...that many marriages I envy. A lot of women are just hanging in there for the security, but that's a dumb reason to get married. As for children, I'm too much of a perfectionist to put up with them. I'd be a rotten mother...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: A GALLERY OF AMERICAN WOMEN | 3/20/1972 | See Source »

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