Four Democrats in search of their party’s presidential nomination, and the wife of a fifth, came to New York City in November and spoke to the Lexington Democratic Club about the quality of leadership needed in the post-Watergate era. The fire breathing hopefuls were Representative Morris Udall of Arizona, Governor Milton Shapp of Pennsylvania, former Governor Terry Sanford of North Carolina, Senator Birch Bayh of Indiana, and Ladonna Harris, wife of the former senator from Oklahoma Fred Harris.
In spite of their angry rhetoric, they were not an exciting bunch. They worked over the ideas and slogans that, in practice, have brought New York to its knees as a supplicant to—those same people with their same ideas. It’s not just the dollars that go back and forth between the states and Washington.
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