Word: westwood
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Gracious. As recriminations persisted, Jean Westwood, chairman of the Democratic National Committee, was under multiple pressures to resign her post, but insisted stubbornly that she would not do so. Demands that she quit came from five Democratic Governors, who apparently represented the majority opinion among the 31 statehouses now controlled by the Democrats. Many of the Governors have resented the recent dominance of the party by Democratic Senators, and feel that they have largely been pushed aside by the McGovern movement. Their spokesman, Arkansas Governor Dale Bumpers, observed dryly that "it would be the gracious thing to do" if Westwood...
Survival. The centrists will get the first opportunity to test their strength when the Democratic National Committee meets in December. A movement is afoot to topple the most visible symbol of McGovernism, Jean Westwood. The leading plotters are George Meany, eager to help reshape the party whose candidate he disdained; his chief political lieutenant, Al Barkan, director of Big Labor's Committee on Political Education (COPE); and Scoop Jackson, one of the most vehement of McGovern's preconvention rivals. They are even supported by some McGovern followers, who describe Westwood as a "scheming nonentity." Potential replacements include Robert...
...Westwood may not be that easy to dislodge. Her term nominally runs to 1976, and leaders like Edmund Muskie and Ted Kennedy are reluctant to participate in a party bloodbath so soon after the electoral massacre. Westwood, moreover, is playing her own brand of survival politics. Rather than stacking key party posts with McGovernites, she has been appointing people from other sections of the party. Because she was shut out of any major role in the Mc-Govern campaign, she has had time to do a little work for herself. Thus her travels to see Wallace and other Southern Governors...
Healer. As she fights for a place in the old order, Westwood will have some imitators among McGovernites on the local and state levels. As separate entities, McGovern organizations largely self-destructed this week. But many local workers will stay on to fight another day-within the established party apparatus. Time and again, party regulars who could not take McGovern have warmed up to some of his youthful supporters. If there was ever a chance for a collision, it was in Chicago when the McGovernites arrived. The Daley regulars had braced for the worst, only to be pleasantly shocked when...
...days before the election, the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers struck the network, blacking out three N.F.L. football games and an important Face the Nation broadcast (guests: George McGovern and Spiro Agnew), and threatening to obliterate election coverage. Fearing labor troubles at the worst of all possible times, Jean Westwood, chairman of the Democratic National Committee, asked CBS to keep away from any Democratic functions; several candidates also gave excellent imitations of persons badly frightened by a picket line. CBS got the message and canceled its "remote" pickups from some 20 locations. The network was thus forced to stay within...