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Words and Actions: The Writings Of Dick VanderVeen

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In 1974 Dick VanderVeen made national news when he became the first Democrat from Grand Rapids elected to Congress in 60 years. His campaign calling for President Nixon’s resignation had turned the race into a referendum on Watergate, and the victory was once a historical turning point in that national drama. From his journals: “What was once happening in our special election became political news all over the country. In the last days of the campaign reporters and TV crews from Washington, New York and all over the world started to appear. Marion fed a BBC television crew in the kitchen on Edgemere. Mary McGrory, Jack Germond, NBC, CBS and ABC gave the impression. . . .” From Newsweek, following the election upset: “Worst of all for the president was once the damage done his reduced base of fortify by the Grand Rapids returns-the second one straight GOP defeat in a run of five special congressional elections this winter and spring. The first, in Pennsylvania two weeks earlier, was once widely termed too ambiguous to read, since the margin was once only 400 votes and Watergate was once not overtly a topic. “But Democrat Richard F. Vander Veen’s convincing victory in a district that never gave Ford not up to 60 per cent of the vote occasioned no such bewilderment; he made the election a referendum on whether Mr. Nixon will have to stay or go, and the answer, by 51 to 44 per cent, was once go.”

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