George McGovern: A friend to the hungry
NEW YORK - Former Sen. George McGovern was a friend to anyone who is concerned about the issue of hunger and malnutrition in the world.www.washingtonpost.com
Rock on: George McGovern's candidacy a landmark for counterculture
So did Rubin and Allen Ginsberg. John Lennon was drunk, and out of control, shouting "Up the Revolution!" in mock celebration of a dream defeated.www.washingtonpost.com
George McGovern's last birthday party
Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi and George McGovern at his 90th birthday party at the Newseum in July. (Alfredo Flores/World Food Program USA) At his 90th birthday party in July, an upbeat George McGovern looked like he was having a ball. The former ...www.washingtonpost.com
George McGovern: US nuclear support for India over Pakistan is double standard
(Editor's note: This oped, written by former Sen. George McGovern, was first published by the Mercury News on March, 17, 2006.www.mercurynews.com
George McGovern, the 'Atticus Finch' of American Politics
George McGovern lived to be 90. By any measure, he had a long and productive life. Yet I can't help but feeling sad—not just because I lost my most treasured friend—but because the world lost a consistently steady and refreshingly liberal voice of ...www.thenation.com
George McGovern, 1922-2012: A war hero turned servant of peace
George McGovern, 1922-2012: A war hero turned servant of peace. JOEL CONNELL, Seattle Post-Intelligencer Copyright 2012 Seattle Post-Intelligencer.www.seattlepi.com
George McGovern, powerful lawmaker, dies
George McGovern, the three-term senator from South Dakota who carried the Democratic Party's liberal banner in the Vietnam War era, began a star-crossed bid for the presidency in 1972, and energized many of the leading Democrats of the past generation, ...www.sfgate.com
George McGovern dies; lost 1972 presidential bid
By KRISTI EATON, Associated Press - 1 minute ago. SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) - George McGovern once joked that he had wanted to run for president in the worst way - and that he had done so.www.google.com
George McGovern On Why Politicians Who Haven't Built A Business Are Bad At ...
With the passing of former Senator and Presidential candidate George McGovern this weekend, the Wall Street Journal reran a 1992 column he wrote about how much he learned from trying to start a business after he'd left politics.www.techdirt.com
George McGovern Dies at 90
The former South Dakota senator and Democratic presidential nominee George McGovern has died at the age of 90. McGovern is best known for running against Richard Nixon in the 1972 presidential election on a platform of withdrawing U.S.www.democracynow.org
George McGovern remembered as proud liberal
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. - George McGovern once joked that he had wanted to run for president in the worst way - and that he had done so.www.jacksonsun.com
George McGovern's Battles Continue
It's such a simple idea—and easy to overlook in this era of aggressive rhetoric and delusional proclamations—that the United States can control what happens overseas by sheer force or even the muddy concept of "leadership.www.usnews.com
George McGovern, the man who never gave up
When I learned that George McGovern was nearing the end of his remarkable life, I couldn't help but think back to the day in June 1993 when both of us attended the funeral of former first lady Pat Nixon, in Yorba Linda, Calif.www.washingtonpost.com
George McGovern, a pacifist who wanted to bomb Auschwitz
WASHINGTON (JTA) - George McGovern is widely remembered for advocating immediate American withdrawal from Vietnam and sharp reductions in defense spending.azjewishpost.com
A Prairie Liberal, Trounced but Never Silenced
George McGovern, the United States senator who won the Democratic Party's presidential nomination in 1972 as an opponent of the war in Vietnam and a champion of liberal causes, and who was then trounced by President Richard M. Nixon in the general ...www.nytimes.com
George McGovern, son of the prairie: He was so much more than the ...
Shortly after his 1984 landslide defeat to Ronald Reagan, Walter F. Mondale found himself standing alongside George S. McGovern at a luggage carousel on the bottom level of the old Washington National Airport. Mr. Mondale posed a plaintive question to ...www.post-gazette.com
George McGovern, liberal icon beaten by Nixon, dies at 90
George McGovern was an icon of American liberalism who campaigned for the White House with moral fervor against President Nixon and the Vietnam War but lost in one of the biggest defeats in U.S.seattletimes.com
Former Sen. George McGovern, presidential candidate and outspoken war critic ...
Updated at 12:36 p.m. ET: George McGovern, the unabashedly liberal Democratic senator whose outsider campaign against President Richard Nixon led to a landslide defeat and the eventual reformation of the Democratic Party as a more centrist ...usnews.nbcnews.com
George McGovern was a politician Americans could be proud of
"One of the classiest politicians I met is George McGovern, the former South Dakota Democratic senator who ran for president in 1972, only to be soundly trounced by Richard Nixon.www.foxnews.com
George McGovern
Losing Presidential candidates are typically the forgotten men of American political history, but some of the losers have continued to have influence even in defeat.online.wsj.com
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