John’s Reviews > Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72 > Status Update

"The essential point is that procedureis the last defense of a vanishing majority." McGovern strategist Rick Stearns on how the nomination was secured in Miami.

wait, NIXON had a guaranteed income plan in 1972? & McGovern tarnished his "competence" brand by inelegantly rolling out his ALTERNATE GUARANTEED INCOME PLAN? What planet is this?

"the campaign manager protested. 'Nobody's going to believe a thing like that.'
'I know,' Johnson replied. 'But let's make the sonofabitch *deny* it.'"

I want to finish this by November, and I am only up to May.