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...character in a poem by Rudyard Kipling, who may be an appropriate laureate for the party that invented the Vietnam War, with the last word on that kind of analysis. "'You have scarce the soul of a louse,' he said, 'but the roots of sin are there.'" Robert S. Strauss, the Democrats' party chairman, compared the party not to a louse but to a gorilla, but he evidently had only the mildest, friendliest, least threatening kind of gorilla in mind--after all, the party did not want to frighten any potential voters away...
...small-town merchant who had emigrated from Germany, Strauss got his law degree from the University of Texas. He went on to help found what was to become one of the top law firms in Dallas and to make a fortune in banking, real estate and radio stations. Strauss got his start in politics in 1962 when he raised funds for the successful gubernatorial campaign of John B. Connally, a good friend and college classmate. In 1968, Connally named him to the Democratic National Committee, and in 1970 Strauss became party treasurer, inheriting a $9.3 million debt, which he quickly...
After George McGovern's humiliating defeat in 1972, Strauss was backed by party regulars-including Senator Henry M. Jackson, Senator Hubert Humphrey and the AFL-CIO'S Alexander Barkan-to replace Party Chairman Jean Westwood, a McGovernite liberal...
...Strauss won by a margin of 4% votes, out of the 203% cast, but came to power disliked, mistrusted and feared by the liberals and reformers, and suspected of racism by the blacks. Said Strauss to his wife Helen shortly after the election: "We're going to have to win our way out of this one, babe...
...Strauss's technique was to keep in close touch with all factions of the party, ranging from Alabama Governor George Wallace on the right to Black Caucus leaders on the left, and try to maintain a scrupulous neutrality among the jockeying presidential hopefuls of the party. A resolute pragmatist, Strauss was lukewarm at best about some of the party reforms proposed by the liberals, but backed them because he sensed that they were supported by a broad majority of the party...