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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...
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...
...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...