George McGovern will be remembered chiefly as the ... But the 90-year-old former senator from South Dakota was a great deal more than that. For one thing, McGovern is credited, or blamed, with ...

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 ...

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 ...

And so the activists found a younger left-wing candidate, Senator George McGovern, to carry their banner. Indeed, the hostility between the Old Guard and the New Left was so intense that at the ...

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 ...

The one candidate without experience as a governor, senator or representative, Sargent Shriver, lost in 1972 as Democrat George McGovern’s ticket partner. Republicans picked Vance, and their ...

The last church I served before my retirement from active ministry was in Washington, DC. The pastor before me sometimes reminisced about the days when he could look out into ...

George McGovern ultimately secures the Democratic ... Humphrey also served as a Senator from Minnesota twice, from 1949 to 1964 and from 1971 to 1978. Humphrey was named the Democratic nominee ...