I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in. - George McGovern
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 election, died early Sunday in Sioux Falls, S.D. He was 90. Read on at NY Times...
The Moral Clarity of George McGovern
By BRUCE MIROFF
EVERYBODY noticed George S. McGovern’s decency. Robert F. Kennedy called him “the most decent man in the Senate.” But during the 1972 presidential campaign, political pundits assumed that a man who was that nice could not possibly be the strong leader Americans required. Few predicted that he would still be standing after the early primaries. Read on at NY Times...
The Lost World of George McGovern
By JOSH GARRETT-DAVIS
GEORGE S. McGOVERN is, in some sense, the reason I exist. My parents met as radical community organizers in their early 20s, an idealistic honey-haired student at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and a scraggly wannabe farm boy from Brown University, knocking on doors for the now defunct Acorn. Read on at NY Times...
Op-Classic: George McGovern on Op-Ed (October 22, 2012)
George S. McGovern, a former senator from South Dakota and the 1972 Democratic presidential nominee, wrote several Op-Eds over the years. Here is a sample of some of those articles. Read on at NY Times...
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