George McGovern will be remembered chiefly as the first of several liberals to win the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination and lose the general election in spectacular fashion.

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 ...

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Just 22,091 votes separated John F. Kennedy from Richard M. Nixon in the contest for New Jersey’s sixteen electoral votes in ...

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 ...

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 ...

In the mid-1960s, Keys worked as a Democratic campaigner, eventually running George McGovern's 1972 political campaign in the state of Kansas. “We managed to get quite a lot of delegates for ...

Hubert Humphrey's withdrawal and delegate support pivotal in Chisholm's campaign; Muskie and McGovern also made significant impacts. George McGovern ultimately secures the Democratic nomination ...

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