phasing out richard nixon
TBHC35 years ago…
November 30, 1971 – Henry M. “Scoop” Jackson, a Democratic senator from Washington state, kicks off his Florida campaign for the presidency in front of 600 at the Ramada Inn in Tampa. Jackson made it clear that he was staking his claim at the center of the Democratic Party, saying that it was the responsibility of those in the center to lead the battle for social and criminal justice. He drew his loudest reaction of the event, however, when he targeted President Nixon directly by saying, “It’s time to get into Phase III, and out of Phase II, the phasing out of Richard Nixon … and then to Phase IV, which will be the inauguration of a Democrat as president!”
Courtesy of the Tampa Bay History Center.
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November 30th, 2006 at 11:47 am
I was at that rally and was a Scoop Jackson supporter as a staff worker and a delegate to the Democratic National Convention. Scoop was a unique individual, nicknamed the Senator for Israel and the Senator from Boeing, he has been missed in the Senate. His death a few years ago was very sad to a lot of us.
November 30th, 2006 at 1:56 pm
Mr. Bill, that’s very cool that you were there. Glad we could bring back a memory with one of our dates.