I f you happen to find yourself listening to Conversation 62 of Tape 33 of the new Nixon documents released this summer, this is what you will hear: On Election Night 1972, Richard M. Nixon, having served George McGovern the biggest electoral college defeat in history, took a congratulatory phone call from Hubert H. Humphrey, who all but admitted he had wanted McGovern to lose, and that he had tried to keep him from winning.
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Issue #7, Winter 2008
The Myths of McGovern
Thirty-five years later, what the 1972 campaign can—and can’t—teach liberals today.
Why the Democrats Are Blue: How Secular Liberals Hijacked the People's Party By Mark Stricherz • Encounter Books • 2007 • 350 pages • $29.95 The Liberals' Moment: The McGovern Insurgency and the Identity Crisis of the Democratic Party By Bruce Miroff • University Press of Kansas • 2007 • 355 pages • $29.95 |
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 Rick Perlstein is the author of Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus. A senior fellow at Campaign for America's Future, his book Nixonland will be published in June.
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