The Massachusetts Spy Volume CCXXXIV, Number 55    November 19, 2004 

Editor's Note:  With the sound and fury of the 2004 Presidential campaign behind us, we thought we'd look back at a previous landslide winner and his magnificent mandate.

Sox Won't Pursue Jackson, Morgan, Other Negroes
 

Volume CCII              November 11, 1972            Worcester, Massachusetts         30 cents

PRES. NIXON HAILS "MANDATE OF '72";
   LASHES OUT AT 'ELITIST' LIBERALS;
   WILL FIGHT ABORTION ON DEMAND

Att'y Gen. Mitchell Promises Law and Order and Warns
          Congress Not to Block Conservative Judicial Nominees

they cost mcgovern the election
Nixon hatchetman Charles Colson said that Americans have decisively rejected the the free love and drug use advocated by the Democrats pictured above.


News Analysis: Can
Democrats Recover
From Election Rout?

NATIONAL PRESS CLUB BAR, Washington, D.C. – Richard Nixon rode to a smashing re-election triumph on three horses: acid, amnesty and abortion.

The superbly-organized re-election effort, headed by White House chief H.R. Haldeman and backed by a seasoned team, including the rabidly partisan Roger Ailes, destroyed Sen. George McGovern with those three simple messages.

The hapless Democratic nominee could not respond to the GOP charges that he was soft on drugs, draft dodgers and abortion on demand. "The Republicans painted the picture of McGovern supporters as rich Yale clubmen who shirk military service, use drugs and run around having casual sex with slutty girls," Ailes explained. He defended the anti-McGovern campaign as "fair and balanced."

President Richard M. Nixon and his handlers lost no time today describing their 49-state electoral sweep as the "mandate of '72," and pledging to reshape government as an instrument of Nixon's will.  Hopes that the new administration would pursue a moderate course have apparently been dashed.

The first step, according to White House enforcer Charles Colson, will be to purge Cabinet officials and other officials thought to be insufficiently loyal to Nixon. He cited the IRS, which refused to audit Nixon's enemies despite White House demands, and the FCC, which thus far has not lifted the television licenses of the Washington Post, as prime examples of agencies that "need to get with the program."

Nixon strategists believe that the electorate has decisively endorsed Nixon's conduct of the Vietnam War and his battle against liberal elitists at home.  "The President appealed to the great silent Christian majority," explained Attorney General and CRP head John Mitchell.

Mitchell promised that Nixon would not forget who supported him and who didn't.  He promised more "strict constructionists" on the Supreme Court.  "The President would like to appoint nine William Rehnquists to the Supreme Court."

Meanwhile, despondent Democrats tried to pick up the pieces of their shattered party. "Let's face it, the voters supported the Commander-in-Chief in wartime and regarded Watergate as a two-bit burglary. If the Democrats want to appeal to mainsteam America, they've got to abandon their support for abortion rights and support the President's peace-with-honor policy," said Democratic pundit Ben Wattenberg. "Otherwise, they won't regain the White House in my lifetime."

ACCORDING TO BOOKMAKERS, THE HEAVY FAVORITE IS "EINMARSCHIEREN"

The search for the most beautiful word in the German language is almost over.

Entries for a competition to unearth the most stunning example - organised by the German language council - have been flooding in.

More than 20,000 words, ranging from the sublime to the ridiculous, have been sent in by email and letter .  . . .

The entries are being judged by a panel that includes authors, musicians and film-makers, and Volker Finke - described as Germany's most eloquent football manager. . . .

So will it be a simple word like "Liebe" - love, or the more involved "Geheimratsecken," which means receding hairline?

Sunday is the deadline for submissions, with the jury is expected to make its decision by October.

– BBC News via hbc.co.uk.com, August 1, 2004.