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Popular Culture Review
West Va.The light caught Senator McGovern's full seated
figure in a profile shot that emphasized his paunch
and again the feeling was one of lassitude and
fatigue.
It is perhaps a bit premature for me to assess your
attitude in this campaign but what I saw in Mr.
Cronkite's hour, yesterday evening, was hardly
reassuring.
From the first time that I saw Senator McGovern's
face on TV in the early primaries I recognized an
honesty in his eyes which is far more important than
those understandably sometimes confused moments of
mounting a campaign without the vast sums, without
the "charisma," without the "hard sell" by those more
experienced pitch-men who have come to pass for
statesmen in our political life.
Have you reflected upon what will happen to this
country if McGovern's opposition, Nixon-Agnew, are
placed again at the head of it for four more years,
with the full unconfessed and unshriven w