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Show George McGo vern Twelve moths ago George McGovern could have joined Harold Stassen on the Oblivion Party ticket. He was that well known. Of course he was riding a political groundswell; but the experts say this country has as many groundswells as it has pigeons. But some groundswells become earthquakes; thus we have George McGovern as the Democratic candidate for president. presi-dent. He is on the spot. Brother, is he on the spot. He must quickly unite a party spanning George Wallace and Shirley Chislom, Henry Jackson and William Proxmire, Ted Kennedy and Mike Mansfield, and John Eastland and Julian Bond. When he hath slain the Unity Goliath, he must move on to George Meany. . For months there has been talk that labor would move to Wallace if McGovern copped the nomination. Without labor's money, there will be no Democratic campaign. Then there is Illinois, a state essential to a successful Democratic campaign. But Mayor Daly of Chicago is reportedly unhappy about his vacation to Miami. McGovern has to bring this king-pin back into the fold quickly. Assuming he should get so far, the 11th labor of the world involves in-volves Richard Nixon. He's already off and bugging George's offices. He will have the slickest advertising campaign ever seen if the evidence of '68 indicates anything. His innuendo creators have been at work for months. And when he brings back John Connally maverick Democrat to be his vice-president, many Democrats and southerners will migrate to the Republican Party. The current cliche is that McGovern is an unknown quantity. The upcoming campaign cam-paign will employ a fear of the unknown and pit it against the known. "Would you rather have President Nixon or the Unknown?" sounds kind of like would you rather be alive or dead? The outcome will depend on how well George McGovern can make himself known. |