Word: postmortem
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Eagleton seemedto have a more balanced evaluation in his own postmortem. He said that he thought he had contributed only "one rock in that landslide," adding: "When you've got a spread of 23 points in the polls, translating into many millions of votes, I can't describe the Eagleton situation as being the determinant." He offered a solid reason for McGovern's loss: "I think he was misinterpreted in many respects, but nevertheless the perception of him on issues was one that caused this term radical to stick. The candidate we field in 1976 will have...
...alive and well in the hands of Richard Nixon, who clasped to his bosom the very groups the McGovernites had antagonized: labor, white ethnics, the South. "Nixon would have been beaten by someone who could have held the grand coalition together," said Henry Jackson in a postmortem. "How could any one candidate alienate labor, the religious groups, the South and others in one election?" Adds Hubert Humphrey: "We don't need to indulge in a massive purge in the party, but the leadership must be closely related by word and deed to the working people, to the small town...
...during the 1970 elections, Agnew took the fight to the Democrats-and to errant Republican Charles Goodell of New York-with speeches crafted by White House ghostwriters and a relish reminiscent of an earlier Richard Nixon. His performance ran according to plan, but the results did not; in the postmortem, Agnew received a good deal of the blame for the Republicans' relatively poor showing. For once, Agnew staff members agreed with his critics in the press: the responsibility, they insist, belongs to some of the same White House types who are currently pushing for Agnew's removal. Says...
...work to keep themselves occupied. All the officers have been reassigned to new posts. Pollack and Smithlin are going to the Business School on a Navy training program. Others on the staff will split up to different reserve units in the East. One has the pleasure of leaving this postmortem for another at Brown, where the ROTC program will be closing out to meet Brown's June 1972 deadline...
...wiring in the tank. The fire in turn damaged the seal at the top of the tank and generated heat that expanded the oxygen. The resulting pressure caused the weakened area to burst. The board also detailed an extraordinary sequence of bungling uncovered by the $1,000,000 postmortem...