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...possibility that Minnesota, our cover subject this week, is America's most civilized state began to dawn on Chicago Bureau Chief Gregory H. Wierzynski last year while he was covering pre-election politics in Minneapolis and St. Paul...
What first impressed Wierzynski was the civility and fairness of the precinct caucuses he had been observing. In Chicago, he thought, similar meetings would have been punctuated by shouting and fistfights. Later, as he was packing to leave his Minneapolis hotel and return to Chicago, he watched an early evening news report "of snowmobile accidents, city council resolutions and a pronouncement by the Governor. It was intensely local," Wierzynski recalls, "and, I thought at the moment, boring." He arrived home that night, just in time for the sort of late evening television news to which he was more accustomed. "This...
...weeks of interviews in McGovern's America, TIME'S Gregory Wierzynski found that the operative word is almost always "tone"?to change the tone of government, of the country. A young McGovern pollster, Pat Caddell, explained his feelings: "It is more a question of moral leadership than of program. It is the goal of reconciliation and salvation, of the spirit he gives the country more than the bills he proposes or programs he initiates." Yet if McGovern's America is a reflection of his personality, the man himself evokes none of the adulation that characterized, say, the John...
...vice-presidential possibilities. As a result, Correspondent John Stacks was at Ribicoffs side in his hotel suite when McGovern phoned the next day to ask him to be his running mate. Stacks knew before McGovern himself - because Ribicoff had told him - that the offer would be refused. Correspondent Gregory Wierzynski sought out Eagleton for an hourlong interview - a full twelve hours before the Missouri Senator himself knew whether he was to be the vice-presidential candidate...
...mood in Wisconsin this year remains unpredictable, oddly disengaged. "There is something sleeping, something going on under the surface in this state, and the candidates have not captured it yet," muses Harold Rohr, a painters'-union official in Madison. It is not apathy, reports TIME'S Gregory Wierzynski, "but something bordering on despair. People seem to suspect that the candidates are mere shadows-that if elected, they could not do much to change the rising prices, unemployment and heavy taxes." Says Mrs. Marguerite Wiegand, an Appleton housewife: "I watch television with a book in my hand, and when...