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The Democratic Primary [Part 1]
“The United States presidential election of 1976 was the 48th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 2, 1976. Democratic candidate Congressman Robert Sargent Shriver of Maryland and his running mate Jimmy Carter of Georgia defeated incumbent Republican President Nelson Rockefeller Conservative Congressman Phil Crane and “Independent Democrat” Governor Jerry Brown. This election is coconsidered by many historians to be “one of the most significant in American history, alongside 1860 and 1932”. The Republican Party suffered a crippling split between liberal and conservative wings, and in the Democratic Party the gap between the New Left and the old American Liberals began to widen, although their respective split would come in 1980 and would be far less acrimonious…”
- First Paragraph of the “1976 Election (Presidential)” article of the American Encyclopedia of History and Culture, 1997 Edition
"Incumbent Joseph Tydings was proving to be quite unpopular indeed, both the left and the right had grivances with him (among them, his support for gun control and controversial crome bills). Sensing a possible defeat on the midterm elections, the Party (who had never been too fond of him) asked him to step down. It was actually former President Lyndon B Johnson who suggested they ask Shriver to jump into the race, which after some encouragement form his wife Eunice and his brother-in-law Ted, he did. It was close, but ultimately Shriver maneged to defeat his Republican opponent, much to the frustration of President Nixon..."
Robert Sargent Shriver was elected to the US Senate in 1970, to represent the state Maryland. Shriver was a devout Roman Catholic, who had worked in establishing several Kennedy/Johnson era social programs in the Peace Corps and the Office of Economic Opportunity. He also served as Ambassador to France for little over a year before returning to the Unites States to practice law in Washington, at the encouragement of his brother-in-law Ted Kennedy. His wife Eunice was integral in convincing him to jump into the Congressional race and back to the government.
Shriver worked diligently with his co-partisans to protect the Great Society era programs which benefited the working class, the bedrock of the Democratic Party, which at the time was worryingly slipping away to the Republican camp thanks to Richard Nixon’s noxious “southern strategy”. This may have been the deciding factor for which Edmund Muskie selected Robert Byrd as his running mate for the 1972 election. Shriver supported the Democratic ticket with all of his energies but it was eventually defeated by large margin.
Shriver continued to work in the senate, sited on the Judicial Committee (he was a graduate of Yale Law School), the Education and the Workforce Committee and the Foreign Affairs Committee. It was on the first one where Shriver made a name for himself among his co-partisans, and to some degree the national media, thanks to his relentless and methodical questioning of Nixon’s associates as the Watergate scandal, and many of others Nixon’s crimes and indiscretions came to light in late 1973 and early 1974. It wasn’t for nothing that when Nixon’s Enemies List became public, Shriver’s name was quite high up on it.
Another momentous event occurred in early 1973: The Supreme Court ruled 7-2 that, according to the 14th Amendment, the state could not deny the right to a woman to end her pregnancy. At the time, very few states in the Union allowed for a woman to end a pregnancy on demand, and some allowed it in cases of rape or incest. The decision effective inimitably made it so a woman could choose to end her pregnancy before the third trimester
Shriver and his wife were incensed, they were both firm believers that conception marked the begging of life. Shortly after the Supreme Court announced its ruling, he made an impassioned speech on the floor of the House denouncing “the ideology of abortion”. As the battle lines were drawing between anti-abortionists and those who believed in “The Right to Choose”, the anti-abortion camp found a Democratic Liberal ally. There were many women who opposed abortion, but were scared off by what they saw as sexist policies within the conservative movement.
One such woman who believed one could be liberal and pro-life was Ellen McCormack of New York. She wrote to Shriver after reading his speech, telling him about how wonderfully she thought he had expressed his ideas, that she was forming a Grass-root organization based on “Pro-Life” ideals and would he like to be an honorary member? Shriver and Eunice wrote back that more than honorary members, they would like to be official members! They paid for her ticket to meet them in Washington where they started talking about the details of a coalition of working men and women, those that opposed abortion and had supported JFKs and LBJ Great Society. Ted Kennedy was also part of this meetings as a more moderating voice, and as always, one advocating for Universal Healthcare to be included in this “Pro Life” platform
1974 and Nixon was out, and almost 50 new Democrats were in. Things looked bright for the Party, they had supermajorities in the Congress and poor President Ford was in a balancing act between the old liberals and the new Reaganites. But not all was well under the surface: the new “Watergate babies” as they were called, proved to be a blessing and a curse at the same time. While they had emboldened the liberal wing of the party and stroke a blow to the seniority system (they were instrumental in overthrowing 3 southern committee chairmen in favor of more liberal younger ones) they were also quite dogmatic, overly partisan, far to combative with their moderate co-partisans and out of touch with the “peculiar liberalism” of the working class.
Shriver was conflicted about this new generation of Democrats, they were definitely on the same side, but just simply couldn’t stand the thought of the Party going down the road of partisanship and dogmatism. They had supermajorities now, what was going to happen when they had a much slimmer one? Or when they were in the minority? He allied himself with the more old-school working-class representatives, his growing pro-life coalition and the catholic base.
The 1976 Democratic Primary was a full-blown rat race, several candidates from all over the country jumped in, salivating at the thought of a Nixon level landslide. Shriver was one of them, a few weeks before the Iowa Primary he announced to a crowd of industrial workers that he was gunning for the White House. To his right were his dutiful wife Eunice and his brother-in-law Ted, evoking the memories of Camelot. To his left was Ellen McCormack, representing his “Right to Life Coalition”.
Things would get thought form here to the Convention, and the Iowa Primary provided no less clarity that January...
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Hi guys I'm president Earl Warren and I'm working with @BP Booker to creste this tl. I have to thank him for playing a huge hand in fleshing out ideas that I had proposed into a nice workable order (that is mostly his work above) I look forward to giving a good tl which we intend to at least Last into the 90s. All advise and constructful criticsism is of course wlecome.
The Democratic Primary [Part 1]
“The United States presidential election of 1976 was the 48th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 2, 1976. Democratic candidate Congressman Robert Sargent Shriver of Maryland and his running mate Jimmy Carter of Georgia defeated incumbent Republican President Nelson Rockefeller Conservative Congressman Phil Crane and “Independent Democrat” Governor Jerry Brown. This election is coconsidered by many historians to be “one of the most significant in American history, alongside 1860 and 1932”. The Republican Party suffered a crippling split between liberal and conservative wings, and in the Democratic Party the gap between the New Left and the old American Liberals began to widen, although their respective split would come in 1980 and would be far less acrimonious…”
- First Paragraph of the “1976 Election (Presidential)” article of the American Encyclopedia of History and Culture, 1997 Edition
"Incumbent Joseph Tydings was proving to be quite unpopular indeed, both the left and the right had grivances with him (among them, his support for gun control and controversial crome bills). Sensing a possible defeat on the midterm elections, the Party (who had never been too fond of him) asked him to step down. It was actually former President Lyndon B Johnson who suggested they ask Shriver to jump into the race, which after some encouragement form his wife Eunice and his brother-in-law Ted, he did. It was close, but ultimately Shriver maneged to defeat his Republican opponent, much to the frustration of President Nixon..."
Robert Sargent Shriver was elected to the US Senate in 1970, to represent the state Maryland. Shriver was a devout Roman Catholic, who had worked in establishing several Kennedy/Johnson era social programs in the Peace Corps and the Office of Economic Opportunity. He also served as Ambassador to France for little over a year before returning to the Unites States to practice law in Washington, at the encouragement of his brother-in-law Ted Kennedy. His wife Eunice was integral in convincing him to jump into the Congressional race and back to the government.
Shriver worked diligently with his co-partisans to protect the Great Society era programs which benefited the working class, the bedrock of the Democratic Party, which at the time was worryingly slipping away to the Republican camp thanks to Richard Nixon’s noxious “southern strategy”. This may have been the deciding factor for which Edmund Muskie selected Robert Byrd as his running mate for the 1972 election. Shriver supported the Democratic ticket with all of his energies but it was eventually defeated by large margin.
Shriver continued to work in the senate, sited on the Judicial Committee (he was a graduate of Yale Law School), the Education and the Workforce Committee and the Foreign Affairs Committee. It was on the first one where Shriver made a name for himself among his co-partisans, and to some degree the national media, thanks to his relentless and methodical questioning of Nixon’s associates as the Watergate scandal, and many of others Nixon’s crimes and indiscretions came to light in late 1973 and early 1974. It wasn’t for nothing that when Nixon’s Enemies List became public, Shriver’s name was quite high up on it.
Another momentous event occurred in early 1973: The Supreme Court ruled 7-2 that, according to the 14th Amendment, the state could not deny the right to a woman to end her pregnancy. At the time, very few states in the Union allowed for a woman to end a pregnancy on demand, and some allowed it in cases of rape or incest. The decision effective inimitably made it so a woman could choose to end her pregnancy before the third trimester
Shriver and his wife were incensed, they were both firm believers that conception marked the begging of life. Shortly after the Supreme Court announced its ruling, he made an impassioned speech on the floor of the House denouncing “the ideology of abortion”. As the battle lines were drawing between anti-abortionists and those who believed in “The Right to Choose”, the anti-abortion camp found a Democratic Liberal ally. There were many women who opposed abortion, but were scared off by what they saw as sexist policies within the conservative movement.
One such woman who believed one could be liberal and pro-life was Ellen McCormack of New York. She wrote to Shriver after reading his speech, telling him about how wonderfully she thought he had expressed his ideas, that she was forming a Grass-root organization based on “Pro-Life” ideals and would he like to be an honorary member? Shriver and Eunice wrote back that more than honorary members, they would like to be official members! They paid for her ticket to meet them in Washington where they started talking about the details of a coalition of working men and women, those that opposed abortion and had supported JFKs and LBJ Great Society. Ted Kennedy was also part of this meetings as a more moderating voice, and as always, one advocating for Universal Healthcare to be included in this “Pro Life” platform
1974 and Nixon was out, and almost 50 new Democrats were in. Things looked bright for the Party, they had supermajorities in the Congress and poor President Ford was in a balancing act between the old liberals and the new Reaganites. But not all was well under the surface: the new “Watergate babies” as they were called, proved to be a blessing and a curse at the same time. While they had emboldened the liberal wing of the party and stroke a blow to the seniority system (they were instrumental in overthrowing 3 southern committee chairmen in favor of more liberal younger ones) they were also quite dogmatic, overly partisan, far to combative with their moderate co-partisans and out of touch with the “peculiar liberalism” of the working class.
Shriver was conflicted about this new generation of Democrats, they were definitely on the same side, but just simply couldn’t stand the thought of the Party going down the road of partisanship and dogmatism. They had supermajorities now, what was going to happen when they had a much slimmer one? Or when they were in the minority? He allied himself with the more old-school working-class representatives, his growing pro-life coalition and the catholic base.
The 1976 Democratic Primary was a full-blown rat race, several candidates from all over the country jumped in, salivating at the thought of a Nixon level landslide. Shriver was one of them, a few weeks before the Iowa Primary he announced to a crowd of industrial workers that he was gunning for the White House. To his right were his dutiful wife Eunice and his brother-in-law Ted, evoking the memories of Camelot. To his left was Ellen McCormack, representing his “Right to Life Coalition”.
Things would get thought form here to the Convention, and the Iowa Primary provided no less clarity that January...
....................................................................….......…......…………….….…………......
Hi guys I'm president Earl Warren and I'm working with @BP Booker to creste this tl. I have to thank him for playing a huge hand in fleshing out ideas that I had proposed into a nice workable order (that is mostly his work above) I look forward to giving a good tl which we intend to at least Last into the 90s. All advise and constructful criticsism is of course wlecome.
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