The Week

George McGovern is running for President. His problem is that not many people really care. McGovern cares. He journeyed to the college campuses. Boldly, in front of all those students, he promised that, if elected, he would grant amnesty to all draft evaders. Guts.

“Why are you here? You’re here to cause trouble. I’ll cut you up in little pieces!” What’s this? Little Caesar to one of the boys? No; Edmund Muskie’s Storm Troopers about to “crowd” John Lofton Jr., editor of the Republican National Committee journal Monday. Lofton sauntered out to Kennebunkport, Maine recently to do his journalistic duty by reporting the Democratic Presidential hopeful’s shindig for some of his better-heeled supporters and contributors. Well, the Muskie goon squad began taking close-up flash shots of Lofton, trying to unnerve him. Muskie’s executive assistant, Charles Micoleau, leapt over a table, shoved Lofton against a wall and forbade him to take pictures of the Great Man and his moneyed friends. This harassment of Monday’s editor kept up all weekend, after which the Muskie men tried to make light of the affair. Lofton “is a graduate of the William Loeb school of journalism,” sneered Press Secretary Richard Stewart, referring to the publisher of the Manchester (N.H.) Union Leader. Edmund Muskie, as every one knows, is destined by Divine Providence to ascend to the Presidency, just so long as he isn’t saddled with a Negro Vice President and observed by unfriendly reporters.

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George McGovern is running for President. His problem is that not many people really care. McGovern cares. He journeyed to the college campuses. Boldly, in front of all those students, he promised that, if elected, he would grant amnesty to all draft evaders. Guts.

“Why are you here? You’re here to cause trouble. I’ll cut you up in little pieces!” What’s this? Little Caesar to one of the boys? No; Edmund Muskie’s Storm Troopers about to “crowd” John Lofton Jr., editor of the Republican National Committee journal Monday. Lofton sauntered out to Kennebunkport, Maine recently to do his journalistic duty by reporting the Democratic Presidential hopeful’s shindig for some of his better-heeled supporters and contributors. Well, the Muskie goon squad began taking close-up flash shots of Lofton, trying to unnerve him. Muskie’s executive assistant, Charles Micoleau, leapt over a table, shoved Lofton against a wall and forbade him to take pictures of the Great Man and his moneyed friends. This harassment of Monday’s editor kept up all weekend, after which the Muskie men tried to make light of the affair. Lofton “is a graduate of the William Loeb school of journalism,” sneered Press Secretary Richard Stewart, referring to the publisher of the Manchester (N.H.) Union Leader. Edmund Muskie, as every one knows, is destined by Divine Providence to ascend to the Presidency, just so long as he isn’t saddled with a Negro Vice President and observed by unfriendly reporters.