Oct 22, 2015 - Sale 2394

Sale 2394 - Lot 81

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"A GOOD HISTORIAN WILL TELL . . . HOW THE AMERICAN PEOPLE WERE MISLED IN 1972" MCGOVERN, GEORGE. Autograph Manuscript Signed, in the third person within the text ("Mr. McGovern"), as Senator, working draft of a speech addressed to the Presiding Officer of the Senate ("Mr. President"), claiming that Theodore H. White's 1972 book, The Making of the President, is misleading, and requesting that a corrective review of the book by Frank Mankiewicz be entered into the Congressional Record. Signed within the speaker introduction at the top of the page. 2 pages, 4to, "United States Senate" stationery, ruled paper, written on rectos only. (MRS) Washington, [circa 1974]
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"Mr. President, one of the best books it has been my privilege to read was Theodore White's book The Making of the President, 1960. One of the worst books I have ever read is Mr. White's The Making of the President, 1972.
Frank Mankiewicz, who was involved, as I was, in both campaigns has given us a[n] analysis of why the 1960 book was so good and why Mr. White failed so miserably in 1972. . . .
". . . I could scarcely believe the uneven character of the book. . . . [T]he analysis of the Nixon character and the problems that beset my campaign after the Miami Convention are both ridiculous and woefully misleading.
"Mr. White is totally off base, for example, in his account of my role in selecting a new national chairman at the Miami Convention. . . . And he tops off a series of false accounts about me by quoting a labor leader's unfounded accusation about my veracity.
"Some day a good historian will tell the full story of how the American people were misled in 1972. Mr. W/hite has been among those who have temporarily obscured that story. . . ."