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Campaign
Memo
From Smith to Buchanan, Khachigian RE:
Youth For New Politics News Release. 4 pgs.
Wednesday, June 03, 2015
Page 1 of 1
October 21, 1972
vote FOR
CONFIDENTIAL
THE PRESIDENT
MEMORANDUM FOR:
PAT BUCHANAN
KEN KHACHIGIAN
FROM:
KEN SMITH
Attached is a mailing to 500 campus newspapers
from a new group that seems to have grown up
from almost nothing even a month ago. We will
watch their development with interest. It is
noteworthy that the underground press - some
40 papers we are told - have agreed to print
this before November 7 due to the understanding
of foundation support for the new group.
1701 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20006 (202) 872-1430
"YOUTH FOR NEW POLITICS"
Chair Person:
Temporary Address:
ROBERT C. JOHNSON
Main City Post Office
Co-Chair:
General Delivery
PETER BRAGGERT
Washington, D.C. 20013
CATHY MANEROTT
For years the American people have been looking for a
candidate to truly represent all the people. By now
the youth of America should be tired of being used as
a political commodity. We've heard all the big time
rhetoric about the new reformed politics, but we've
only seen a sickening sell-out to the cynicism of the
old politics - especially by George McGovern, a man who
had our highest hopes in January and drove them into
the mud in September. Politicians can't be allowed to
exist with the idea the "you can fool some of the
people some of the time, and young people all of the
time." It's time we unite to do something about it.
Youth for New Politics intends to do something about it.
Enclosed is our statement to the people asking them to
do something about it too. You have the power to help
us get our appeal to the people - please help us.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
For years the people of America have been looking for a candidate
to truly represent all the people. As the coordinators of youth for
new politics, we have seen many disappointing days. From the bloody
days of ' 68 in the streets of Chicago to the political sell-outs of
the '72 Conventions. We were by the failure of Gene McCarthy in ' 68
and in '72 as we trooped through snows of New Hampshire we thought we
had a candidate that would stand up as a man of the people in the
Spring - and not change in the Fall. It's a pity George McGovern had
so much promise, but once he got the nomination in Miami, he dumped those
who helped him get the nomination. He dumped the principles which made
his candidacy so viable. Idealism and principles fall by the wayside
when McGovern turned on his supporters during the South Carolina delegate
challenge in Miami.
Hear George McGovern at the convention:
"
Full and unequivocal support" for the South Carolina
challenge. Hear him two days later: Newsweek, July 24, 1972,
"That that South Carolina challenge was not a risk worth taking".
(A conversation with the McGovern PBS-TV, July 26, 1972)
Corruption continued to creep into the McGovern philosophy when he
appeared recently in Chicago with none other than Mayor Richard Daley ---
praising him to the rafters. Dick Daley! He's the guy who kicked the anit-w
movement in submission. He's the guy whose expulsion from the Democratic
Convention was the breath of fresh air we were all looking for.
-MORE
October 17, 1972
And up with Daley was a guy named Ed Hanrahan. McGovern endorsed
Ed Hanrahan for State's Attorney in Chicago.
You remember Hanrahan. He's. the guy who ordered the raid on Black
Panther headquarters which ended up in the murder of two Blacks. He's the
guy up for charges on that raid. And now, unfortunately, he's the
guy who McGovern has embraced to carry out the law in Chicago.
The final betrayal of any sense of decency that might be left in
American politics came when George McGovern called his recent meeting
with L.B.J. "the most treasured moment of my life." A true leader
against an unjust war would not place a man who directed the mass murder
of millions in Indochina in such high esteem.
By now the youth of America should be tired of being used as a
political commodity. We've heard all the big time rhetoric about the new
reformed politics, but we've only seen a sickening sell-out to the cynicism
of old politics. George McGovern and other pseudo-representatives of the
people no exception politics. Politicians can't be all owed to exist with
the idea that, "you can fool some of the people some of the time, and young
people all of the time." It's time we united to do something about it!!!!!
YOUTH FOR NEW POLITICS wants your help to put a stop to this political
"rip-off." At last we have an organization with enough backing to make the
voice of the real youth heard. And we won't sell you out, because we're
all in this together.