Rolling Stone magazine No 172 October 24 1974

IN THIS ISSUE

With this issue, we introduce a new department to ROLLING STONE,
entitled Politics. The general editor of the section will be Richard N.
Goodwin, who should be well known to our readers from his columns
of political analysis that have appeared since issue No. 162, and from
his work as speechwriter and special assistant to President John F.
Kennedy, and also as speechwriter to Senators Robert Kennedy and
Eugene McCarthy.

The purpose of the department is, in Goodwin's words, to give
people an understanding of what's going on behind the scenes in poli-
tics. a way of making sense of the flood of unrelated news coming out
of Washington. Goodwin will be a contributor to the section.

This first installment is introduced by a report on the recent speak-
ing tour of Alabamas Governor George Wallace. As the story by
Joe Klein of the Real Paper (Boston) notes, this tour was almost
entirely ignored by the news media, although it was Wallace's first
trip outside the South since the attempt on his life in 1972. .

Pat Caddell conducted public-opinion polls for George McGovern
during the 1972 presidential campaign and has emerged since then
as a leading independent pollster. Robert Shrum was Senator McGov-
erns principal speechwriter in the 1972 campaign. In their contribu-
tion to this section they comment on the findings of the polls Cad-
dell has been conducting recently for politicians. They contend that
the public is angry and ready for drastic measuresperhaps even
ripe for the appeals of a demagogue. .

Tad Szulc was born in Poland and raised in Brazil. Until his recent
resignation to do freelance writing, he was, for 20 years, a foreign-
policy reporter for The New York Times.

Politics 20
Beatlemania Continued By Joe! Siegel 40
Jive Times II: Lily Tomlin By David Felton 24

DEPARTMENTS 
Letters 4
Music 6
Singles 12
Random Notes  16
Records 40

Founded in California, by Jann Wenner back in 1967 Rolling Stone Magazine delved deep into the music world and frequently tackled political issues. In the first edition 11/9/1967 Wenner wrote that Rolling Stone "is not just about music, but about things & attitudes that the music scene embraces. However it quickly distanced itself from the underground newspapers of the time embracing traditional journalism & avoiding the radical politics championed by the underground press.