POLITICS The First Casualty Harold Hughes raised the flag and no one saluted. Last week the U.S. Senator from Iowa accepted the obvious, announcing he had made a "clear-cut and irrevocable" decision not to seek the 1972 Democratic presidential nomination. A long shot in an already crowded field, Hughes became the first casualty of the politics of '72.
Hughes, 49, never formally announced his candidacy, but there were some who thought he just might catch on in the lackluster field of Democratic hopefuls. Big, broad-shouldered and ruggedly handsome, with a deep bass voice and the oratorical...
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