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...York Review of Books, Christopher Lasch argues that McGovern fails to make an impact on people because he has not assumed a populist stance. In a recent interview, Jack Newfield and Jeff Greenfield, authors of the book A Populist Manifesto, took a similar stance. After hearing McGovern on the stump for a week, it is fair to say that this assertion is simply not true. McGovern consistently attacks the Nixon administration for selling out to "special interests" and proceeds to attacks the President for the ITT affair and the Russian grain deal. McGovern says repeatedly that in his administration...
...would do so partly by means of his $ 10 billion program to immediately hire 1,000,000 people-many of them heads of welfare families-and partly by spending on a wide variety of programs to expand demand throughout the economy. McGovern says on the stump that "the Nixon inflation is ground into every pound of hamburger you buy." But former Budget Director Charles Schultze, a McGovern adviser, concedes that wage and price boosts might be higher under his candidate than under a re-elected Nixon. Schultze insists that the inflationary price must be paid, if necessary, to avoid...
...fact, as the voters are constantly rediscovering, both appearances are somewhat deceiving. Pat on the stump is full of banter and mildly flirtatious, brimming with a zest for meeting people. She tackles a crowd of strangers like a bee that has spotted a new clover field. She does not simply shake a hand, she cuddles it in both of hers. She hugs, touches, pats, squeezes. She scoops up small children with easy endearments like "Dolly," or "Sweetheart." She almost never makes formal speeches, nor does she directly praise her husband. "I can't boast for my family," she explains...
...President in conference. With Nixon, the travel days are always predictable; bad scheduling is rare and mistakes never surface. The White House works overtime to show that they never occurred. The President moves at a careful pace, emphasizing his presidential duties, his larger responsibilities. On the stump, he never mentions McGovern or the Democratic Party, and only indirectly does he acknowledge that he even has an opponent...
...Seine southeast of Paris. Recently a three-judge court in nearby Melun ruled that the Trognons could not bestow their name on their three-year-old foster son Philippe. The court did not object to the couple but only to their surname, which means stump or butt end. A name like that, said Chief Judge Maurice Rousseau, would be "un handicap" that would make poor Philippe "a butt of jokes" for the rest of his life...