For millions of Americans, her hop up onto a North Vietnamese anti-aircraft gun and the click of a camera transformed actress ...
George McGovern will be remembered chiefly as the first of several liberals to win the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination and lose the general election in spectacular fashion.
But Kraft had read about George McGovern’s extraordinary 1972 Democratic primary campaign, which saw the little-known senator ride a surprise showing in the Iowa Caucuses to the nomination. He’d ...
In the mid-1960s, Keys worked as a Democratic campaigner, eventually running George McGovern's 1972 political campaign in the state of Kansas. “We managed to get quite a lot of delegates for ...