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Catty1
10-21-2012, 09:57 AM
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/family-spokesman-says-george-mcgovern-lost-1972-presidential-112940674.html


SIOUX FALLS, S.D. - A family spokesman says former U.S. Sen. George McGovern, the Democrat who lost to President Richard Nixon in 1972 in a historic landslide, has died this morning at the age of 90.

ETA: What a man! The full story at the link below is very interesting.

A spokesman for Mr. McGovern's family, Steve Hildebrand, told The Associated Press by telephone that Mr. McGovern died peacefully at 5:15 a.m. Sunday at a hospice in Sioux Falls, surrounded by family and lifelong friends. The family had said in a statement late last year that Mr. McGovern had become unresponsive while under hospice care.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/former-us-senator-george-mcgovern-dies-lost-1972-presidential-bid/article4626660/?page=1

phesina
10-21-2012, 10:29 AM
Rest in peace, Senator McGovern, a fine man indeed.

smokey the elder
10-22-2012, 02:38 PM
RIP, Mr. McGovern. You were a real gentleman.