George Stanley McGovern – a staunch liberal who served South Dakota in the U.S. Senate and House for more than two decades and who ran unsuccessfully as the Democratic Party nominee for ...

George McGovern was an unusual person. Not because he ran for president. Not because of the size of his loss in 1972. Not because of the policies he proposed. He was an extraordinary person ...

IT’S BEEN 40 years since George McGovern lost his run for the presidency — lost so badly as to become a figure of fun to entertainers, a cautionary example to practicing politicians and, in ...

A liberal icon from a Republican family, former senator George McGovern's legacy is best known for his landslide defeat to President Richard Nixon in the 1972 election. For some politicians ...

The death of former Sen. George McGovern has triggered a flurry of well-deserved tributes to his class, his humanity, his integrity, his faith, his civility and his service to his country as a ...

George McGovern was a man of faith and conviction who worked tirelessly to make life better for “the least of these.” He was decent and kind to friend and foe alike.

The passing of George McGovern ["A landslide defeat — and a lasting mark," front page, Oct. 22] recalled for me the time I had the opportunity to meet him. It was after he had left the Senate ...

If anyone was entitled to regrets, it was George McGovern, who died at 90 over the weekend. His 1972 campaign was such a disaster that he once joked that he "wanted to run for the presidency in ...

Former South Dakota Democratic Sen. George McGovern, who died Sunday, had all manner of evil said about him because of his opposition to the Vietnam War. He was called unpatriotic, disloyal, an app… ...

George McGovern was an unusual person. Not because he ran for president. Not because of the size of his loss in 1972. Not because of the policies he proposed. He was an extraordinary person ...