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More oxford books @ www.OxfordeBook.comFore more urdu books visit www.4Urdu.com268LEGACIESThis contention was borne out by the 1972 election, when the newparty nominated candidates for both president and vice president. Afteran unsuccessful attempt to draft Murray Rothbard, the convention settledon Rand’s old friend John Hospers, a philosophy professor at theUniversity of Southern California, and Tonie Nathan, a broadcast journalistand businesswoman based in Oregon. Hospers and Nathan wereon the ballot in only two states, Colorado and Washington, and hada campaign budget under seven thousand dollars. Although the Partyearned only 3,671 votes, it gained one electoral vote—and national mediacoverage—when a renegade Virginia elector, Roger MacBride, cast hisvote for Hospers-Nathan. 60 The nominally Republican MacBride hadbeen tutored in the fundamentals of libertarianism by no less a luminorythan Rose Wilder Lane, who considered him her adopted grandson andmade him her literary heir. His rebellion made Nathan the first womanto receive an electoral college vote, an event that drew television newstrucks to the normally staid Richmond Capitol Building where electorsvoted. The Party’s quixotic decision to run candidates had turned outto be a savvy move, garnering national news coverage far beyond whatwas warranted by the campaign. MacBride became an instant hero toParty members and sympathizers and would go on to be the Party’s nextpresidential candidate.After the election the Party usurped Rand as a basic commonalityamong libertarians. Every libertarian had heard of the Party, and everylibertarian had an opinion about it. The group even began to attractnew members from the Democrats and Republicans, particularly afterWatergate created widespread disillusion with politics-as-usual. One ofthese new converts was the future interior secretary Gale Norton, whofound her way to the Party through an early interest in Rand. 61Undaunted, Rand hammered away at the Libertarian Party in heryearly Boston speeches. The party was a “cheap attempt at publicity,”and libertarians were “a monstrous, disgusting bunch of people.” Herprimary theme was that libertarians had plagiarized her ideas. “It’s a badsign for an allegedly pro-capitalist party to start by stealing ideas.” Later,she expanded on this idea, telling a questioner that the party stole herideas and then “mixes them with my exact opposite.” 62Besides their supposed plagiarism, what Rand objected to was libertarianlaissez-faire in morals and the Party’s acceptance of anarchism.After contentious infighting anarchists and minarchists had established