Zusammenfassung
1972 was a true watershed in Maine politics. Following a hundred years of Republican dominance, Democrats led by Senator Ed Muskie had achieved a string of victories that threatened to sweep Republicans from the board of congressional and gubernatorial offices. On election day only the win by first time Republican congressional candidate Bill Cohen would stop the Democrat shut out.
Cohen won by determination and perseverance, charisma, and grit, and by his campaign 650-mile walk across Maine’s expansive second congressional district from Gilead on the New Hampshire border to Ft. Kent on the Canadian border. The Walk, as it became known, was an over-arching feature of that campaign and soon became a staple of the subsequent successful campaigns by congressional, senate, and gubernatorial candidates in the Pine Tree State. On the fiftieth anniversary of a campaign that would change the course of Maine politics and propel Cohen onto the national political stage where he would play prominent roles in the House, Senate, and as secretary of defense, this book captures, in the vivid and often surprising words of the participants, how The Walk came to be.
Schlagworte
The Walk Senator Cohen Secretary of Defence William Cohen Bill Cohen Maine Politics- Kapitel Ausklappen | EinklappenSeiten
- 225–236 Index 225–236
- 237–242 About the Contributors 237–242
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- „... , and Bill Cohen.Bill Cohen and Chris Potholm in Millinocket, Maine during “The Walk.”Bill visiting with ...” „... a farmer during “The Walk.”A typical backyard barbeque dinner at a host’s home during “The Walk ...” „... to the cars that accompanied Bill on “The Walk.”Bill Cohen landing in Lisbon, Maine, to campaign in ...”
- „... : Yes, he was “Walking George Walker.” He was the governor of Illinois and he had walked, not the entire ...” „... were still traveling pretty fast. Those were the moments I worried about the most during the walk.I ...” „... from reporters before they went out on the walk and they were very cynical, but after they walked with ...”
- „... let me think about it while I went home for spring vacation in March. Dan Walker had just walked the ...” „... Walker and Senator Lawton Chiles in Florida who walked, as well. Not the entire state, only a part of it ...” „... influence has increased in recent years.Jed Lyons: Bob, did you participate in the walk?Robert Loeb: I would ...”
- „... County as he was getting close to the end of the walk.Jed Lyons: When did you intersect with the walk ...” „... Chris Potholm in Millinocket, Maine during “The Walk.”Bill visiting with a farmer during “The Walk ...” „... accompanied Bill on “The Walk.”Bill Cohen landing in Lisbon, Maine, to campaign in early November 1972.Bill ...”
- „... Bangor. Tell us about your memories of the walk.Cindy Watson-Welch: The walk had been in progress and I ...” „... walk which was really a wonderful experience for me. I mean not only was it fun to be on the road in ...” „... many of us who were actually on the walk. There were lots of people in the campaign, of course, but ...”
- „... campaign and just being accommodating to whoever came to the door. I do remember walk-ing down the street ...” „... the walk.Rob Witsil: Yes. My best memories were on the walk and meeting peo-ple with Bill. In ...” „... that we did north of Bangor.Jed Lyons: Do you remember Bill reciting poetry on the walk?Rob Witsil: Not ...”
- „... , 1972, 61–62, 65–66; The Walk in, 93, 103, 126Astor, Brooke, 68, 195AWACS planes, sale to Saudi Arabia ...” „... Maine, 48, 65; Violette and, 87–88, 128–29, 141, 187–88, 192; on The Walk, p1, p2, p3, p4, p6, p7 ...” „... ; Watergate and, 130, 164Cohen, Bill, 1972 campaign for Congress. See The Walk; specific topicsCohen, Clara ...”
- „... happen to have a copy of the map of the walk?Mike Harkins: No, I think it was straight up from Lewiston ...” „... in the basement the large blow-up picture of Bill from the walk.Bill Cohen: Jed, there was something ...” „... one third of it and in the general election the walk dominated our coverage. Potholm recruited Jed and ...”
- „... , also.140Bill Cohen’s 1972 Campaign for CongressJed Lyons: How many miles was the walk, Chris?Bill Cohen ...” „... practically every pair of boots I wore during the walk, maybe six or seven pairs.Jed Lyons: I remember you ...” „... Muskie. Bob said he wanted to go on a walk across the state and I said, well, it’s been done, you know ...”
- „... walk across the state, which I think started in the Oxford County town of Gilead, if I remember ...” „... correctly. I did pretty well pulling that one out of the cobwebs, didn’t I? The walk was inspiring to voters ...” „... were modeled on Bill’s?David Emery: Well, certainly the walk. I also did a walk. It was some-thing that ...”
- „... Blackjack and the Law.Jed Lyons was one of Bill Cohen’s advance men during the 1972 walk. He helped organize ...” „... cohorts when the college went coed). After obtaining her political education on the Cohen walk, working in ...” „... School. He credits The Walk for changing his major to government and legal studies after meeting so many ...”
- „... June and the general is in November. When was the decision made to do the walk?Chris Potholm ...” „... memorable flight I recall is the one during the walk when you landed in a helicopter in Lisbon in a parking ...” „... on the walk. I was one of the advance men traveling one day ahead of Bill trying to find Republicans ...”
- „... Richardson into the Cohen campaign and Elliot came up and campaigned with us during the walk. We were all ...” „... cars that helped protect me on the walk. So that’s how I met her. They became a big help to me in ...” „... educated in France, and so I attacked the French vote in French and walked around Lewiston and Biddeford ...”
- „... just The Walk, but the whole campaign, primary, general, etc. Let’s go all the way back and hear from ...” „... Bill was the hardest working candidate I’d ever seen before or since. And I think The Walk and ...” „... couldn’t walk the several miles from their home in the Cypress Hills neighborhood of Brooklyn. He grew up ...”
- „... day-to-day operations of the campaign.Jed Lyons: When you first heard that Bill was going on a 650-mile walk ...” „... because only the healthy survive, but the balance is changing. Usually there are more—historically ...” „... there’ve been more of us alive than dead, and I think we’ve turned the corner this year. So I raced back ...”
- „... young, he was obviously fit, I think the walk through the congressional district was absolute genius. I ...” „... athlete, that kind of helped in selling the whole notion of this guy walking 600 miles. How is he able to ...” „... Bowdoin was the best decision that I ever made in my life. I spent four years at Bowdoin as a classmate of ...”
- „... during the walk.Chris Potholm: Well, before we go down that road, and I will have a few things to say ...” „... basically as junkyard dogs. We took everything—divorces, bankruptcies, rape cases, whatever walked into the ...” „... Potholm: We did ours. We want to hear a little bit about your beginnings and how the Bowdoin you ...”