Chairman Strauss claims Democratic Party unity is back

March 22, 1973 - The Democratic Party National Committee has 25 at large member seats available; the largest single block of nominees are from labor, particularly from groups who disliked McGovern. Democratic party is looking up according to the Chairman of the Democratic National Committee, Robert Strauss. He says the pieces are falling into place. The bitterness and lack of communication and rancor that built in 1968 and ran through 1972 is a thing of the past. The Democratic party is back in one piece. He says labor is back because its had empathy with the party over many years, and shares the party?s interests. That deteriorated during 1972; Strauss says he?s been trying to reverse defections, 18 to 20 million of them