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 ...

Former North Dakota Gov. George Sinner praised George McGovern Sunday as "one of the truly outstanding people who have come out of this part of the world, not afraid to speak truth from his heart." ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. -- George S. McGovern, a proud liberal who argued fervently against the Vietnam War as a senator from South Dakota and suffered one of the most crushing defeats in presidential ...

Picture it: January 1971, Sioux Falls, South Dakota. "My Sweet Lord" by George Harrison is No. 1 on the radio charts. The Vietnam War is grinding into its 16th year. And an uncharismatic “nice guy” ...

In the history of lost causes, the figure of George McGovern casts a poignant shadow. His run for the White House in 1972 ended in one of the biggest electoral defeats in American presidential history ...

The 1972 Democratic presidential nominee, who died at 90 on October 21, embraced and inspired the struggle for peace and economic and social justice. For more than half of his American century, George ...

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 ...

George McGovern, the three-term senator from South Dakota who carried the Democratic Party's liberal banner in the Vietnam War era, launched a star-crossed bid for the presidency in 1972 and energized ...