Word: democratically
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Harris had done little to check this party tendency to prefer reverie to reality. When President Nixon gave his televised State of the Union speech, the National Committee offered only Joe Califano, former assistant to President Johnson, to the networks for rebuttal. Complained one top Democrat: "Now Joe's a bright boy, but outside of Washington, who ever heard...
Shriver Moving. Such is the vacuum of Democratic leadership that speculation persists that New York's Republican Mayor John Lindsay may turn Democrat (see box, page 13). At lower levels, there is also a dearth of attractive Democratic candidates in some key states. Sargent Shriver, long rumored ready to resign his ambassadorship in Paris to run for Governor of Maryland, is now considering moving to New York to seek the Senate seat once held by his brother-in-law Robert Kennedy, and currently occupied by Republican Charles Goodell...
...time of notably unglamorous national politicians, Lindsay, a prime and ambitious 48, is, as one New Jersey Democrat called him, "a beautiful piece of political property." But whose property? Unless he wishes to end up in that political boneyard where former mayors of New York City traditionally molder, Lindsay must create an identity and plan that will liberate him from city hall and place him in the ranks of national leaders...
Late this year he becomes a Democrat. The reaction is somewhat schizophrenic. Ted Kennedy issues a halfhearted welcoming statement, intending to support Lindsay for President in 1972, watch him lose to Nixon and then step forward himself in 1976. The Democratic National Chairman is delighted to have such a lustrous fund raiser join the ranks. Others are less pleased with the interloper, and they are not all Southern Democrats. Maine's Edmund Muskie rather archly welcomes Lindsay aboard, after passing the word to a press secretary to triple his own speaking engagements. Hubert Humphrey greets the news with...
...fantasy, of course, is improbable. If Lindsay did become a Democrat, he might be more likely to run behind. say, Muskie in the primaries. Lindsay might stay alive for a few ballots at the convention and then capitulate, or at best, be persuaded to take second spot on the ticket. And that slate might lose disastrously in November...