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...party's Credentials Committee met in Washington late last month, a stop-McGovern coalition formed, centered around Hubert Humphrey and organized labor; Edmund Muskie's supporters joined along with George Wallace, Washington's Senator Henry Jackson, Arkansas' Wilbur Mills and even New York's Shirley Chisholm. The "A.B.M. movement," some of them called it?"Anybody But McGovern...
When McGovern's speech was over, Humphrey and Muskie, Chisholm, Sanford and Jackson all clasped hands in a tableau of party unity; only Jackson looked, at first, dyspeptically suspicious. As McGovern knew, that array of unity could not conceal the deep fissures that divide the party. Actually, there are two Democratic parties now. One was in the convention hall, relishing its ascension to power. The other, beaten and bitter, was on the sidelines. It was not just Richard Daley, but included scores of Democratic Governors, Senators, Congressmen, state party chairmen, local officeholders?all the regulars unhorsed by the McGovern reforms...
...betrayed his emotion only by a small, unmistakable sign: his blue eyes were brighter than usual. Before the vote-changing started, the total for McGovern was 1,728.35. When it was over, the tally for McGovern was 1,864.95; Jackson, a surprising second, had 485.65; Wallace had 377.50; Chisholm, North Carolina's Terry Sanford, Humphrey, Muskie, Wilbur Mills and Eugene McCarthy trailed behind...
Throughout the weekend, McGovern workers and their counterparts in the Humphrey, Muskie, Chisholm and Wallace camps maneuvered for positions in anticipation of last night's challenges. O'Brien's decision was viewed as a significant victory for increasingly competent McGovern advisers; his delegate counter, Rick Steams, maintained that the Senator has 1470 firm delegate votes, which would almost assure him the California victory under O'Brien's rules...
...real worry over the Black Bloc, however, is that it will hold out from either camp. Humphrey released his black delegates to Chisholm at the Black Caucus yesterday morning, a reflection of the pressure being applied by black leaders hoping to create a powerful lobby on the Convention floor...