Former U.S. Senator and 1972 ... The campaign had energy, of course, but it never felt frantic . . . or mean.” Below is an admittedly incomplete, at-a-glance biography of George McGovern ...

Thank you for signing up. For more from The Nation, check out our latest issue. George McGovern’s 1972 campaign against Nixon changed many lives, including John Lennons’s. Lennon had moved to ...

A phone call from George ... of 1972 in Sioux Falls, S.D. I was covering the presidential campaign for the Village Voice, the first presidential race I covered, and I’d come to admire McGovern ...

His focus is the 1972 campaign of the late South Dakota Sen. George McGovern. The story, told in seven episodes, begins in 1968 — one of the most tumultuous years in modern American history ...

And inevitably, comparisons will be drawn between Bernie and the last left-bent Democratic insurgent to win a presidential nomination, George McGovern in 1972 ... than of inept campaign mechanics ...

Here was George McGovern, the newly minted Democratic ... of as much weight in the campaign of 1972 as what anyone at the convention said or did.” ...

For many Republicans and more than a few centrist Democrats, the 1972 presidential campaign of George McGovern stands as a monument to left wing radicalism. Newt Gingrich accused his supporters of ...

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. It was a campaign in 1972 dishonoured by Watergate, a scandal ...

George McGovern, the three-term senator ... it opened up the party to women and others.” Gary Hart, McGovern’s campaign manager in 1972 and later a U.S. senator from Colorado and a ...

George S. McGovern, a three-term U.S. senator from South Dakota who was the Democratic Party’s nominee in the 1972 presidential contest, died today at age 90, the Associated Press reported.