WF’s term was “right wing capitalist.”
I for one do. He may not have been as personally powerful as he once was, but he was not a trivial character.
As junior senator from MN he played around as minor a role as a Senator can, especially in the Party.
Democrats for Nixon was not marginal. It got a lot of media.
I wouldn’t say “a lot”. Connally loved issuing press releases, and some elements of the press were happy to print them. What little attention anyone gave him disappeared when LBJ endorsed McGovern.
Added: Meany was a jackass, but the reason Big Labor didn’t actively support McGovern wasn’t because they had some kind of secret establishment agenda or as intentional sabotage, it was pique because McGovern’s people denied them the seats they thought they deserved at the convention. However you feel about labor’s right to some kind of built-in presence in the party, it was naive political ineptitude to treat them this way during that critical campaign and then expect them to deliver anyway.
