DEMOCRATS According to the conventional script and timetable, this is the period in which the out party's presidential aspirants try to sound like statesmen in public while maneuvering for support and money in private. Senator George McGovern has decided to write his own scenario by declaring his candidacy for the Democratic nomination this weekÂthereby becoming the earliest self-certified contender in recent memory.
Why the rush? After a two-hour interview with the South Dakotan, TIME Correspondent Neil MacNeil explained: "McGovern has to move a full year ahead of time because to wait would mean his ruination. He would be forgotten in the melee...
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