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THE BATTALION
^esday, December 16, 1970 College Station, Texas
Page 5
McGovern wants power
)j the presidency in 1972
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RACE
VERY
WASHINGTON UP>—Sen.
George McGovern, impelled by
ff hat he calls the frustration of
pewerlessness in the Senate, will
soon become the first man to de
clare for the presidency in 1972.
But there may be political
frustration ahead as McGovern
begins an open campaign to over
come the lead he concedes Sen.
Edmund S. Muskie holds over a
crowded field of Democratic
prospects.
When the South Dakota sena
tor makes the official declara
tion next month, it will be but a
formality. For more than a year
he has waged an obvious if un
announced drive for the 1972
nomination.
“We’ve been working for over
a year now, trying to see wheth
er there was a basis for a candi
dacy,” McGovern said in an in
terview. “I’m pretty well con
vinced there is.”
It is a small one. One national
poll ranks McGovern seventh on
a list of eight potential candi
dates, the choice of two per cent
of rank-and-file Democrats.
But the 48-year-old senator in
sists he can overcome the long
odds. “Fm inclined to discount
the polls at this point,” he says.
All they do is give an indica
tion of what your recognition
factor is.”
That indication can hardly be
heartening.
But, McGovern says, once he
declares for the nomination a na
tionwide cadre will rally to him.
“What I’m told is that if I’m
serious about running, they’ll be
serious about supporting me.”
He goes on: “My chances of
getting the nomination depend
on working on it over a long pe
riod of time. I don’t think any
one is going to get it handed to
him this time.”
Compared to his most formid
able prospective rivals—Muskie,
Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, Hubert
H. Humphrey—McGovern is lit
tle known, and he concedes he
has an educational job in front
of him to make his views known
to the country.
And, because of his small rec
ognition factor, the presidential
primaries loom particularly im
portant to McGovern. He needs
a strong showing to prove he can
win, and to attract support from
the professional Democrats, now
lining up with Muskie.
“I’m going into a number of
primaries, but I haven’t decided
which ones,” McGovern says. “If
you can’t do well in a number
of primaries, you can’t do well
in the fall.”
The first primary is in New
Hampshire — solid Muskie terri
tory. McGovern does not rule
out a New Hampshire race, but
says he would not expect to win
there.
There is political peril in that,
for if McGovern enters, Muskie
would have someone to run
against, and almost certainly
someone to defeat. And that
would make New Hampshire a
far more valuable prize.
With all of these factors a high
wall against his chances why
does he bother?
“I suppose the thing that im
pels me to be a candidate,” he
says, “is that I just can’t take
the frustration any longer of sit
ting there in the Senate where
you can see the mistakes that
our national leadership is mak
ing, but are powerless to do very
much about it.
“I have no trouble at all un
derstanding the sense of frustra
tion and powerlessness that af
flicts citizens across the country
because I feel the same sense of
it through these continuing poli
cies that are weakening the na
tion, and I feel unable to do
something about it.
“The chance to do something
about it is in the presidency,”
McGovern says.
McGovern also claims he can
do a better job than other pros
pective candidates in sharpening
and defining the issues for the
run against President Nixon.
For a decade, he says, he has
been speaking “more accurately
and more prophetically” about
Southeast Asia than his rivals,
as well as about the problems at
home.
McGovern says the Vietnam
war remains “the transcendent
issue in American politics today.”
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