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Article: Garry Davis' Global Politics
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- The Washington Post
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- April 26, 1987
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Presidential politics occasionally ease the quadrennial tedium
when an unconventional candidate makes the radical look normal.
Norman Thomas, the Socialist who offered his services six times from
1928 to 1948, was one. David McReynolds of the War Resisters League,
on the ballot in 10 states in 1980, was another. Now there is Garry
Davis, the globalist leader of the World Citizen Party who announced
his candidacy Jan. 19 to a college audience in Middlebury, Vt.
The national media, pencils poised to catch the sound-alike
announcements of the Gephardts, Babbitts, Kemps, du Ponts and others
rushing to the bold center, missed the Davis entry. No matter. They
have been failing for nearly four ...