He excelled as a high school debater, despite what he later described as his “inhibited style of speech ... the 1972 conventions “St. George and the Godfather.’’ Mailer was a McGovern ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- 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 dishonored by Watergate ...

That was the theme of the campaign launched 50 Julys ago by a senator from South Dakota named George ... in the 1972 presidential election, after which the country got Watergate. McGovern made ...

By the time McGovern delivered his climactic speech accepting the nomination ... Washington for 40 years, covered George McGovern in the Senate and in his 1972 presidential campaign.

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 dishonored by Watergate ...