The Continuing Crisis
The Continuing Crisis • On October 16, as Messrs. Nixon and McGovern expended the last of their spitballs and persiflage, an associate pro fessor of Government at Harvard, Doris Kearns,...
...And the Nixon campaign has worked steadily to influence those polls with a smooth media campaign and an awesome array of national citizens committees, some of the more potent of which are: Volunteer Firemen for Nixon, Funeral Directors for Nixon, and - with an eye to the new politics - Indians for Nixon, Aleuts for Nixon, Eskimos for Nixon, and Hairdressers for Nixon...
...Nixon and McGovern expended the last of their spitballs and persiflage, an associate pro fessor of Government at Harvard, Doris Kearns, unbosomed herself regarding "Play and Power: Some Thoughts on Children and Politics in America" to an audience of professors, students, and nonplussed maintenance men...
...Nevertheless as the campaign folds into history it seems that, given a choice between Hitler and Mc Govern, or even Tweed and McGovern, McGovern loses - at least according to October's polls...
...Not surprisingly Mr...
...Even the name of the Assistant President, Mr...
...Accepting all allegations as convic tions, the ex-professor of history has given up comparing Mr...
...Meanwhile fabulous tales of Republican espionage, hanky-pank, and boodle flushed the front pages of the Washington Post and various other anti-administration gazettes...
...Haldeman, has not been spared, and Mr...
...Another of the windy 92nd's historic achievements was revealed by the Chicago Tribune which discovered that eleven members of that distinguished body managed absentee rates of over 40 percent...
...Nixon expects to win big, and despite all the malodorous rumors the campaign is not all calumny and vitriol...
...Nixon and complimented him for being the "greatest con artist in political history...
...It rejected about 66 percent of Mr...
...McGovern has taken note...
...On October 13 Sargent Shriver, the patrician aesthete, found poetry in Mr...
...continued on page 24...
...Though the White House sniffs at all of these allegations, the news reports have been implicating more and more powerful White House aides...
...Nixon with Adolph Hitler, the late German politico, and now describes the President as a modern Boss Tweed...
...The incomparable 92nd Congress shut down its wind tunnel on October 18 after casting an unsurpassed 532 recorded votes during more than 175 hours of roll calls...
...Nixon's proposals, allowing bills for Welfare reform, consumer protection, and mass transit to expire in the last hours...
...Hoosiers breathed a sigh of relief when it was found that the senator caught breeding chickens in his Capitol office was not Senator Vance Hartke but rather Maryland's Senator Charles Mathias...
Vol. 6 • December 1972 • No. 3
