Word: westwood
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...weeks before the election that they lost so badly, a number of Democrats were engaged in some curious carryings-on. Georgia Governor Jimmy Carter was up in Chicago huddled with Mayor Richard Daley. Jean Westwood, McGovernite head of the Democratic National Committee, was down in Alabama chatting with George Wallace. George Meany and Senator Henry ("Scoop") Jackson were corralling votes, not for Nov. 7, but for Dec. 9 -the date of the next national committee meeting. Many Democrats were much less concerned with the election -which they took to be a foregone, forlorn conclusion-than with maneuvering to come...
...party will edge back toward the center of the road in terms of both issues and organization changes, with the first skirmish coming over Westwood's retention...
...scheduling touch. During the Thomas Eagleton imbroglio, CBS's Face the Nation seemed to have scored a clear scoop by presenting the beleaguered vice-presidential candidate and Jack Anderson, his chief tormentor, on the same program. But that day Meet the Press interviewed Democratic National Chairman Jean Westwood and Deputy Chairman Basil Paterson, who said that "it would be a noble thing" for Eagleton to resign from the Democratic ticket. That not-at-all casual remark undermined Eagleton's position and made his effort on Face the Nation irrelevant...
Flying to Washington, McGovern assembled his squabbling advisers. No sooner had Westwood started to review the voter-registration drive than O'Brien broke in. "You're the nominee of the Democratic Party," he told McGovern. "It has millions of members and adherents, but here we are with Richard Nixon telling Democrats it isn't your party. You're being cast in the role of a third-party candidate. Maybe we ought to start saying that there is a Democratic Party and that, hopefully, you'll be moving it through the '70s." Replied McGovern...
...Rubbing salt in the Republican wounds, Democratic National Chairman Jean Westwood called the GAO report "the bare outlines of the largest and possibly most corrupt set of financial dealings in the history of American presidential politics." Taking the counteroffensive, Republican National Chairman Robert Dole demanded that the GAO look into the Democratic funds as well. Hinting at "devious cover-ups," Dole pointed out to the GAO what he thought to be "serious" violations on the part of McGovern's fund raisers, and promised fresh accusations this week. The GAO had already decided to investigate Democratic campaign contributions, but McGovern...