Younger people have told me that Kamala Harris’s defeat felt like 2016 squared. Her loss took me back to 1972, ...

But Kraft had read about George McGovern’s extraordinary 1972 Democratic primary campaign, which saw the little-known senator ride a surprise showing in the Iowa Caucuses to the nomination. He’d ...

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 ...

Hand signed by BOTH George McGovern and Calder. Framed. Hand-signed by artist, Hand signed and numbered in pencil by Alexander Calder AND inscribed and signed in ink by George McGovern. Bears Styria ...

For millions of Americans, her hop up onto a North Vietnamese anti-aircraft gun and the click of a camera transformed actress ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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During the 1992 presidential campaign, then-candidate Bill Clinton famously intoned, “I feel your pain,” reassuring voters he understood what they were going through. Since then, similar statements of ...

The last church I served before my retirement from active ministry was in Washington, DC. The pastor before me sometimes reminisced about the days when he could look out into ...