When I heard about the death of former Sen. George McGovern, I had a fleeting thought that President Obama might invoke him at Monday’s foreign policy debate -- perhaps as part of an argument ...

“George McGovern dedicated his life to serving the ... he became a leading voice in the fight against hunger.” – President Barack Obama in an emailed statement “George believed deeply ...

President Barack Obama says the late Sen. George McGovern was “a statesman of great conscience and conviction” who “dedicated his life to serving the country he loved.” In a statement ...

And in fact, in recent months, the word “transformative” has been popping up with some frequency - usually in reference to Barack ... or George H.W. Bush’s (whose foreign policy Obama ...

“George McGovern was a voice of clarity and conviction ... McGovern switched his allegiance from Hillary Clinton to Barack Obama. But in a 2009 commentary in the Post, he lashed out at the ...

George McGovern will be remembered chiefly as the ... As late as 2008, he supported Hillary Clinton over Barack Obama in the identity-politics contest otherwise known as the Democratic ...

Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton should ... their ire on the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, George McGovern said Tuesday. In a letter published in the New York Times and ...

CNN’s David Gergen predicted that “John McCain is going to go after Barack Obama as the George McGovern of 1972.” And after the Pennsylvania primary, the New Republic’s John Judis wrote an ...

Bill Clinton, Barack Obama and Joe Biden — two presidents ... Clinton was a law student running George McGovern’s campaign in Texas and Obama was an 11-year-old living with his grandparents ...