The atmosphere of the party itself had been amazingly loose and pleasant. It has to do with a minor accident that occurred on Connecticut Avenue, in downtown Washington, shortly after George and his wife had bade farewell to the last staggering guests at the party he’d given on a hot summer night in July commemorating the first anniversary of his seizure of the presidential nomination in Miami. Roach, a claims examiner at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Headquarters of Avis Rent-a-Car in Arlington, Virginia. I have just finished making out a report addressed to somebody named Charles R. But we want to keep in mind that “comfortable” is a very relative word around Washington these days - with the vicious tentacles of “ Watergate” ready to wrap themselves around almost anybody, at any moment - and when McGovern composed those eminently reasonable words in the study of his stylish home on the woodsy edge of Washington, he had no idea how close he’d just come to being made extremely “uncomfortable.” George McGovern in the Washington Post: Aug. This is not a comfortable conclusion for a self-confident - some would say self-righteous - politician to reach….” The shattering Nixon landslide, and the even more shattering exposure of the corruption that surrounded him, have done more than I could have done in victory to awaken the nation…. Nixon win and that I lose, but that the margin should be of stunning proportions…. I think history may demonstrate that it was not only important that Mr.
Nixon’s landslide victory and my overwhelming defeat will probably prove to be of greater value to the nation than would the victory my supporters and I worked so hard to achieve.
“Reflecting on the meaning of the last presidential election, I have decided at this point in time that Mr.
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