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THE BATTALION
WEDNESDAY. JULY 21, 1976
Faces of past and future emerge
Democratic convention featured candidatcs-in-waitin;
NEW YORK — A national con
vention is a snapshot, taken at a
single instant, ol a political party
'whose institutional life spans the
generations. It is a family reunion
on a massive scale.
When the last bit of ticker-tape
has been swept away, and the
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celebrants of tbis year’s nominee
have ended their revels, what re
mains in the spectator’s memory, so
often, are the faces of the generation
past and the generation yet to be.
The first Republican convention
this reporter covered was won by
Richard Nixon. But the most vivid
scene was Herbert Hoover — fee
ble but still proud — receiving his
final tribute from the loyalists of a
party that had begun its long slide
from power under his presidency.
Here, at Madison Square Garden
this past week, there were faces
from the Democratic past — from
the Roosevelt, Truman, Kennedy
and Johnson years — watching,
with varying emotions, the passage
of power to the new man from
Georgia and his circle.
Averell Harriman — the per
petual insider — was here* along
with that veteran of the New Deal
years and the FDR staff, Washing
ton lawyer James H. Rowe, Jr. In
proper dynastic fashion, Rowe’s son
has become a member of the Carter
campaign hierarchy.
Hubert Humphrey, George
McGovern, George Wallace and
other presidential contenders of the
past all were granted their nostalgic
moment in the spotlight. But more
intriguing were the glimpses of
some of those who may be center
stage in future convention years.
The game of guess-who s-
rehearsing-for-next-time is more
than just a game. In 1956, John F.
Kennedy came before the conven
tion to concede defeat in a close, ex
citing floor fight for Vice President.
Four years later, he was back as
presidential nominee. In 1960,
Barry Goldwater appeared briefly to
help Richard Nixon quell a conserv
ative rebellion. Four years later, he
was the nominee.
George McGovern ran a short
warm-up race for President at the
1968 convention, four years before
he won the nomination, and Jimmy
Carter stood at the podium, at least
briefly, to nominate Scoop Jackson
in 1972.
Who were the candidates-in-
waiting at this convention? One
could see young Jay Rockefeller, the
candidate for governor of West
Virginia, making the rounds with
his Carter button on his chest.
There were the platform twins —
Govs. Wendell Anderson of Min
nesota and Michael Dukakis of Mas
sachusetts. There were Sen. Dale
Bumpers of Arkansas and Rep. Tom
Foley of Washington. And of course
there was, fleetingly, Ted Kennedy.
But the most obvious candidate-
in-waiting for future years was
California Gov. Edmund G. (Jerry)
Brown, Jr., who beat Carter in
three head-to-head tests this year
and still was shaking his head when
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the convention chose the man he
had defeated.
On the day of Carter’s nomina
tion, Brown lunched with two re
porters in the coffee shop of his
hotel. When a waitress scurried to
bring him a bottle of soda to drink,
he assured her, “Don’t rush. 1 have
plenty of time.”
Indeed, he does. Jerry Brown is
38. If you assume that Carter and
his vice-presidential choice, Sen.
Walter F. Mondale of Minnesota,
will occupy the White House from
now to 1992, Brown would then be
54 — barely older than Carter is to
day. In the year 2000, Brown will be
younger than Gerald Ford is now.
He may not, of course, have to
wait that long, if Carter stumbles as
candidate or as President. But oc
cupying his time will not be a prob
lem. After showing some emotional
symptoms of unwillingness to ac
cept that his late-starting but spec
tacularly successful campaign would
not deny Carter nomination. Brown
seems ready to return to Sac
ramento.
The government he is running
there is more provocative in its pro
gram assumptions and more tal
ented in its top-level administrators
than any other with which this re
porter is familiar in America today.
Including the government of Wash
ington.
The competition in performance
and reputation between Sacramento
and Washington will continue in
coming years, whether it is Carter
or Ronald Reagan or Gerald Ford in
the White House. California is big
enough to provide a yardstick for
measuring Washington’s perform
ance.
Brown carries back to his job
what he calls “a broadened personal
awareness of what this amazing
mechanism called the Democratic
Party is,” a by-product of his cam
paigning in the diverse political en
vironments of Oregon and Rhode Is
land, New Jersey and Nevada.
He will do some more campaign
ing around the country this fall for
other young Democrats, like
Pennsylvania Senate candidate Bill
Green. But mostly he will stay
home and nurture the experiments
that are beginning to change the
structure and policies of govern
ment in our largest state — in areas
from consumer affairs to employe
compensation, to urban problems to
agriculture and the environment.
Brown, who says, “I believe in
doing things in increments,’’ also is
one of the few practicing politicians
in America who believes that
ultimately transforms the dir«
of a society are the ideas tha
leaders generate.
And one idea that lias
planted — incrementally butft
— in this year is that Jerry
may some day he President,
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