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.

Despite his reputation as a pacifist, George McGovern said the Allies should have bombed Auschwitz — an episode with which the late senator and presidential candidate had a little-known personal ...

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It will probably knock the entire Democratic ticket down--except for former presidential candidate George S. McGovern. Senator McGovern is wind-blown all right. Across the autumn-gold corn stalks ...

He was elected to the Senate in 1972, the same year as George McGovern’s epic loss. McGovern ran on the slogan of “Come Home America,” and, as a freshman U.S. senator, Biden backed cutting ...

For millions of Americans, her hop up onto a North Vietnamese anti-aircraft gun and the click of a camera transformed actress ...

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 ...

One politician who got that firsthand experience was former U.S. senator and presidential candidate George McGovern (D). In a 1992 Wall Street Journal column, “A Politician’s Dream is a Businessman’s ...

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