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By EUGENE MCCARTHY
Rappahannock Newt Contributing Writer
The Presidential campaign leading to the 1968 elections has begun. Advisors are busy clarifying their candidate’s position on critical problems. Public relations experts are advising on image and strategy. Pollsters and pundits are already in the field.
In this campaign, as in campaigns past, one vital matter is being overlooked: food. Food is the ultimate unavoidable campaign challenge. It cannot be kept private as sleeping can. It is a public test. The political and physical dangers imposed on candidates by that fact may be the most fearsome test of a campaign.
In political commentaries, generally, most attention is given to the more or less standard campaign banquet foods, usually described as “rubber chicken,” or “cold beans and hot dogs.” These are easy tests, politically defined and accepted.
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