McGovern, Geo

Murray C dug up Eagleton psych hist?

L Goldberg spied

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<span style=" color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 22.399999618530273px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; display: inline !important; float: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">On April 25, George McGovern won the Massachusetts primary. Two days later, journalist <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Novak" title="Robert Novak" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 22.399999618530273px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);">Robert Novak</a><span style=" color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 22.399999618530273px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; display: inline !important; float: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> claimed in a column that a Democratic senator whom he did not name said of McGovern: "The people don't know McGovern is for amnesty, abortion, and legalization of pot. Once middle America – Catholic middle America, in particular – finds this out, he's dead." The label stuck and McGovern became known as the candidate of "amnesty, abortion, and acid." It became Humphrey's battle cry to stop McGovern — especially in the Nebraska primary.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-family: sans-serif; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election,1972#cite_note-9" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[9]</a><sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-family: sans-serif; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election,1972#cite_note-10" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[10]</a>

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important comm on hunger; staffers sold out? cassidy? quinn?

<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/clinton/frenzy/eagleton.htm">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/clinton/frenzy/eagleton.htm</a>

<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election,1972">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election,1972</a>

<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Party_leaders_of_the_United_States_Senate" title="Party leaders of the United States Senate">Senate Majority Whip</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Kennedy" title="Ted Kennedy">Ted Kennedy</a>, the younger brother of former president <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_F.Kennedy" title="John F. Kennedy">John F. Kennedy</a> and former <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Attorney_General" title="United States Attorney General">Attorney General</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_F.Kennedy" title="Robert F. Kennedy">Robert F. Kennedy</a>, had been the favorite to win the 1972 nomination, but his hopes were derailed by his role in the 1969 <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chappaquiddick_incident" title="Chappaquiddick incident">Chappaquiddick incident</a>. He was not a candidate.

Gary hart camp mgr

stone; He saw an opportunity for another trick during Nixon’s campaign in 1972. He adopted the name Jason Rainer and made contributions in the name of the Young Socialist Alliance to Pete McCloskey’s campaign (McCloskey was Nixon’s challenger in the primary). He then sent the receipt to the Manchester Union Leader to “prove” that McCloskey was in fact a left-wing stooge.

Later on Stone hired a GOP staffer, gave him the pseudonym Sedan Chair II, who wound up serving as George McGovern’s chauffeur creating in information pipeline directly to the Nixon campaign.

All three were used in the first major race that Stone was involved in, the 1972 presidential election. When he was ten years old, Stone remembered he had a tarot card reading where he was told he would meet a leader who would change his life, and Stone would later say this leader could be only one man, a man he would become enraptured by, make into his idol, and whose face he would ink into the skin on his back<a id="bkfrftnote14" name="bkfrftnote14" style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-decoration: underline;"> </a><a href="http://italkyoubored.wordpress.com/2014/02/04/roger-stone-pretty-reckless-is-going-straight-to-hell-part-one/#ftnote14" sl-processed="1" style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">14</a>. In 1972, he would help to get this life changing leader, Richard Nixon, re-elected. Every method, except voter suppression, were put to use by Nixon and the Nixon group Stone worked for, CREEP, the Committee to Re-elect the President.

The repellent ugliness of most of these tactics has been forgotten, and so I’m grateful to Rick Perlstein’s <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Nixonland-Rise-President-Fracturing-America/dp/074324303X/" sl-processed="1" style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Nixonland</a> for recording them. Black protesters suddenly showed up in front of the hotel room of democratic candidate Edmund Muskie, calling him racist for having said that a Democratic ticket with a black running mate couldn’t get elected. An ad suddenly appeared in a Miami Beach Jewish newspaper: “Muskie, Why Won’t You Consider a Jew as a Vice President?” Muskie hadn’t excluded the possibility. Flyers appeared in Jewish neighborhoods: “Remember the Warsaw Ghetto…Vote Right on March 14.” Muskie was of Polish descent<a id="bkfrftnote15" name="bkfrftnote15" style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-decoration: underline;"> </a><a href="http://italkyoubored.wordpress.com/2014/02/04/roger-stone-pretty-reckless-is-going-straight-to-hell-part-one/#ftnote15" sl-processed="1" style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">15</a>. A letter was sent to a New Hampshire paper, filled with outrage at what happened when Muskie had been asked how he could understand the problems of minorities given the lack of minorities in Maine, Muskie’s home state. A Muskie aide had supposedly replied that they did have minorities in Maine, the very same minority that was there in New Hampshire: “Not blacks, but we have Canucks.” Muskie had supposedly laughed<a id="bkfrftnote16" name="bkfrftnote16" style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-decoration: underline;"> </a><a href="http://italkyoubored.wordpress.com/2014/02/04/roger-stone-pretty-reckless-is-going-straight-to-hell-part-one/#ftnote16" sl-processed="1" style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">16</a>. The next day, Muskie’s wife was indicted in an editorial in the same paper of telling dirty jokes to reporters, and having two cocktails before dinner. Something in all this broke Muskie, and when the candidate defended his wife in front of television cameras, he began to weep<a id="bkfrftnote17" name="bkfrftnote17" style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-decoration: underline;"> </a><a href="http://italkyoubored.wordpress.com/2014/02/04/roger-stone-pretty-reckless-is-going-straight-to-hell-part-one/#ftnote17" sl-processed="1" style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">17</a>. Muskie’s tears destroyed his candidacy. Muskie was a target, but all the Democratic candidates were targets. Two hundred dollars was donated to Pete McCloskey by the Young Socialist Alliance, the receipt for the donation helpfully sent to a right-wing news editor. A mole, code named Sedan Chair II, was hired to go inside the Herbert Humphrey campaign and relay strategic information<a id="bkfrftnote18" name="bkfrftnote18" style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-decoration: underline;"> </a><a href="http://italkyoubored.wordpress.com/2014/02/04/roger-stone-pretty-reckless-is-going-straight-to-hell-part-one/#ftnote18" sl-processed="1" style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">18</a>.

It would eventually be established with certainty that the man who’d written the “Canucks” letter, the man who’d hired the black protesters in front of Muskie’s hotel room, was Donald Segretti, who handled a secret, separate black ops campaign team for CREEP. The man who’d actually sent the letter to McCloskey, who’d hired the Sedan Chair II mole, was a nineteen year old operative named Roger Stone. It was because of this that he makes a brief appearance in the Watergate testimony.

From <a href="https://archive.org/details/presidentialcamp02unit" sl-processed="1" style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">“Hearings before the Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities of the United States Senate June 5, 6, 7, 12, 13, and 14, 1973″</a> (page 499 on pdf and the actual document). Reisner is Robert Reisner, former administrative assistant to Jeb Magruder, the head of CREEP; Thompson is Fred Dalton Thompson, occasional senator, occasional actor, and one-time candidate for the president, in 2008:

MR. THOMPSON

Did the receipts – do you recall any names of, or any amounts to individuals who were receiving money from Mr. Porter’s safe?

MR. REISNER

Well, I can remember that there were, in addition to Mr. Liddy – now, Mr. Liddy was – it was Mr. Porter that indicated to me that Mr. Liddy was receiving money. There was an individual who was referred to by a code name and that ode name was “Sedan Chair” and that that individual was-

MR. THOMPSON

Sedan Chair? Two words?

MR. REISNER

Yes. I believe it was actually “Sedan Chair 2.”

MR. THOMPSON

Was there a Sedan Chair 1?

MR. REISNER

I do not know. I do not know. Perhaps there was. There was also an individual who worked for Mr. Porter named Roger Stone, who I believe received money. And there may have been other individuals.

But to my recollection, which is a little bit vague on this, there was not a regular disbursement, with those exceptions.

MR. THOMPSON

Who was Sedan Chair?

MR. REISNER

I do not know. I know that – well, I mean, I have sort of a general circumstantial understanding of who I think Sedan Chair was.

MR. THOMPSON

Tell us about it.

MR. REISNER

I will come as close as I can.

MR. THOMPSON

Tell us about it.

MR. REISNER

Subsequent to that, after I learned that there was such an individual, I think I was more alert to the name and I did see a memo in April, I believe, or perhaps May, that purported to be a report from another campaign committee. I believe it was the Humphrey committee. I do not know for a fact who Sedan Chair was. It could have been someone who just simply had his disagreement with the Humphrey committee and wished to report on some of their activities.

MR. THOMPSON

It was someone in the Humphrey committee, from what you can tell?

MR. REISNER

From what I can tell, I mean it purported to be.

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Stone would elaborate in his own memoir:

Sedan Chair II was Michael W. McMinoway, and he would testify before the Watergate Committee that he worked as a campaign spy between February until July 1972 within three Democratic campaigns, Muskie in Wisconsin, Humphrey in Pennsylvania and California, and McGovern at the Democratic National Convention. He would be contacted by a man named Jason Rainier, who said he represented a group of concerned citizens, and he would pay him $1,500 a month for undercover work. Jason Rainier would turn out to be Roger Stone – incidentally, there is a twitter handle <a href="https://twitter.com/jrainier88" sl-processed="1" style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Jason Rainier (jrainier88)</a>, most of whose tweets are re-tweets of Stone’s. Another incidentally is that McMinoway would say in his testimony that two women who met with a McGovern delegate were prostitutes, though despite Stone’s claims, he made no mention of such activity in connection to Humphrey. He offered no proof as to why he believed the women with the McGovern delegate were prostitutes<a id="bkfrftnote19" name="bkfrftnote19" style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-decoration: underline;"> </a><a href="http://italkyoubored.wordpress.com/2014/02/04/roger-stone-pretty-reckless-is-going-straight-to-hell-part-one/#ftnote19" sl-processed="1" style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">19</a>.

There were methods of misdirection, and there was also use of the most powerful method, vote fragmentation. Edmund Muskie was the candidate considered to be the most formidable opponent against Nixon, and so focus was given to weaken and destroy the candidate in order that Nixon might face someone he might easily beat, George McGovern, in the general election. In his memoir, Stone gives an account of his attempt to split Muskie’s catholic vote by bringing a conservative catholic democrat into the race, Los Angeles mayor Sam Yorty:

Were George Wallace, the segregationist governor, to run on a third party ticket in 1972, he would end up splitting votes with Nixon, possibly throwing the election to the democrats.

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