The list of contenders, seeking or sought, for the 1976 Democratic presidential nomination is almost infinitely expandable at this premature stage of the campaign. It includes those household familiars: Edward Kennedy, Hubert Humphrey, Edmund Muskie, George Wallace. It extends to those whose potential candidacies may only be a gleam in someone's eyes, be it only their own, such as New York Governor Hugh Carey, California Governor Jerry Brown, Illinois Governor Dan Walker, Pennsylvania Governor Mil ton Shapp, Idaho Senator Frank Church, West Virginia Senator Robert Byrd, Ohio Senator John Glenn, former North Carolina Governor Terry Sanford, Boston Mayor Kevin White. But...
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