There is much more to a presidential candidate than his stand on issues and his ability to marshal organizational and financial support. Political potential also involves intangibles of spirit and philosophic roots. Less than a year before the 1972 presidential primaries, TIME Washington Bureau Chief Hugh Sidey offers his impressionistic assessment of the Democratic contenders. Even at this early date they are running hard.
NOT the least of the political curiosities in this year of the urban age, is that six of the seven men raised up to challenge Richard Nixon come...
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