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Rating: 67%
Quote: [The US Democratic Party] lost its nerve after the disastrous 1968 convention, wrenched the nominating process out of the hands of the parry bosses who, in the smoke-filled rooms, had elevated Roosevelt, Truman, Stevenson, Kennedy, Johnson, and Humphrey, and handed it over to Gay Liberation, Jane Fonda, Shirley MacLaine, the eco-geeks, militant abortionists, and assorted rabble-rousers. These elements gave the nation and the world the singularly unpresidential sequence of McGovern, Carter, Mondale, and Dukakis.
Reference: Conrad Black, A Life in Progress (Toronto: Key Porter Books, 1993), p.240-241
