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Article: Terry McAuliffe, Democratic time bomb.(The Providence Journal)
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- February 8, 2001
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WASHINGTON _ The last time a Democrat narrowly lost a presidential election (1968) the Democratic National Committee was in disarray. The year's events had thoroughly demoralized the party, and Hubert Humphrey's defeat at the hands of Richard Nixon (with some help from George Wallace) left the Democrats leaderless, unsettled, divided and impoverished.
Into these unpromising precincts stepped an ambitious freshman senator from Oklahoma named Fred Harris. Harris, a sometime-protege of Lyndon Johnson with slight leanings toward his party's left, saw himself as a bridge between the Old politics and the New, and sought to use the DNC to advance his prospects for the ...
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Transcript: TERRY MCAULIFFE CHAIRMAN, DEMOCRATIC ...
Washington Transcript Service;
August 26, 2004 ;
700+ words
... ... Washington Transcript Service 08-26-2004 TERRY MCAULIFFE DELIVERS REMARKS REGARDING PRESIDENT BUSH ... RELEASED BY THE DNC AUGUST 26, 2004 SPEAKER: TERRY MCAULIFFE, CHAIRMAN, DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL COMMITTEE [*] MCAULIFFE: Nearly 500 days ...
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