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    All the Way to Washington: Howard Dean and the Fight to Take Back America

    Facts — surely that had never happened before and would never happen again …
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    McGoverning

    Fair. Oh very much so.
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    McGoverning
    Threadmarks: McGoverning Bonus Content: A Cambridge Consensus?

    This will not be a piece to match the length of some recent ones. But it will cover, in brief, some very important material, the kind that Watsonian historians, political scientists, and economists inside the McGNU itself would pore over and argue about in the decades after McGovernment has gone...
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    McGoverning
    Threadmarks: McGoverning Bonus Content: On Cartographers

    Because AH folk love them some listy goodness, we'll take a moment here to mention the senior personnel/inner circle of the US delegation to the Comprehensive Arms Reduction Talks at Rambouillet. Of course there are a few dozen support personnel of various kinds from the respective entities...
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    McGoverning
    Threadmarks: McGoverning Bonus Content: A Strategy of Arms II

    A Strategy of Arms II: How the McGovern Moment Learned to Parse the Bomb In 1946, after he'd returned from the most destructive war in the human experience to pick up a BA cum laude from his hometown alma mater Dakota Wesleyan University, George Stanley McGovern also went on to win South...
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    McGoverning
    Threadmarks: McGoverning Bonus Content: Moment of Historiographical and Thematic Clarity

    Like it says in the threadmark - this is a brief entry, but it condenses a key framework for understanding the McGovern administration's circumstances, the context of McGovernment's plot arc if you will. We've seen intimations in narrative chapters, we'll see more of it related to defense/natsec...
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    McGoverning

    Well no, not as it turned out. The second one is in fact shorter (by a good bit I think, will have to check word count on that.) This one as they say grew in the telling.
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    McGoverning
    Threadmarks: McGoverning Bonus Content: The McGovern Defense, A Strategy of Arms

    A Strategy of Arms I: Thinking Big Let's come back at it, shall we? In the interest of not overburdening the forum's posting capacity - or the Careful Readers' stamina for single entries - I've decided to split this first post into its two distinct segments. The first deals with issues of...
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    McGoverning

    Fair question — currently at work trying to whip the next two (in narrative order) into publishable shape.
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    McGoverning
    Threadmarks: McGoverning Bonus Content: The McGovern Defense, People and Process

    President George McGovern briefed by the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Adm. Thomas Moorer, during the withdrawal of US forces from South Vietnam in early February 1973 This post starts a limited-run Bonus Content series on a topic that's not necessarily the first we'd think of when it...
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    McGoverning

    What you did there. It was seen. (And some of us saw that in the theatre, btw.)
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    McGoverning

    I'm sure he'll slither out from under a rotting tree trunk at some point; though he was lower on the Nixonian food chain in those days he is ever on the make.
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    McGoverning

    I like several of the allusions here, and want to draw attention to the "trial of the old regime" element. There's definitely a direct element of that to the prosecution of the Nixon crew, and I'd say that it's more true that McGovernment's supporters and followers - the political interests in...
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    TLIAW: Camelot Lost

    I almost regret getting busy with my own thread again given that it's slowed me down commenting yet - I'll get there eventually - on this lovely, thoughtful TL. A TL that really does give us a meaningfully different Sixties - in many ways a sort of "Long Fifties" at least at the level of...
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    McGoverning

    Right?
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    McGoverning

    A certain Georgia amphibian is reconsidering his decision not to go to law school…
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    McGoverning

    ‘Tis an eldritch season… By day, Dick Nixon plays piano and is exasperated by the hijinks of his newly-grown daughters. By night, HE FIGHTS CRIME!!
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    McGoverning
    Threadmarks: McGoverning Bonus Content: Fearsome Opponent - John Doar, Dick Nixon, and Prosecuting a (Former) President

    "John Doar believes in everything Dick Nixon does not. And John Doar is a fearsome opponent." - Jimmy Breslin, How the Good Guys Finally Won: Notes From an Impeachment Summer, p. 107 IOTL John Doar speaks with Liz Holzman during recess of a House Judiciary Committee hearing) We have some...
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    McGoverning

    I have a HEW secretary in mind - won't be a familiar name for a lot of readers, someone chosen because they'd be good at running an executive branch department rather than because they're already an elected Democratic pol, and not someone excessively tied to the Kennedy/Johnson crowd. As for...
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    McGoverning

    But why is Schmidt pushing the McGoverners on multiple fronts? Make the bad Schnauze stop! Simply, it's a means for Schmidt to get the things that he really wants A Brazilian deal that's not as all encompassing as the German firms (or the Geisel government in Brazil) would like but that's...
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