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, a scandal that ...

Not published in LIFE. George McGovern, 1972. Former U.S. Senator and 1972 presidential candidate George S. McGovern (b. 1922) died in October 2012 after being admitted to a Sioux Falls hospice six ...

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — George McGovern was an unwavering, often unrequited advocate for liberal Democratic causes. He pursued those goals in plainspoken, usually understated, Midwestern style. He was a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Is Bernie Sanders the second coming of George McGovern? The latter was a left-wing dark horse who survived a chaotic and ...

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, a scandal ...

WASHINGTON — Thirty-five years ago, with the United States riven by an unpopular armed conflict in a faraway land, the Democratic Party responded by nominating for president its most vocal antiwar ...

Let me begin with a confession. When I started to report out and write this article, I had a simple thesis: Bernie Sanders is not George McGovern. The catastrophic loser of the 1972 presidential ...

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, a scandal ...

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, a scandal ...