Posted on 10/25/2011 7:32:55 PM PDT by massmike
Former Democratic presidential candidate George McGovern has been hospitalized for fatigue in South Dakota, a hospital spokeswoman said Tuesday.
Jullie Ward, a spokeswoman for Avera McKennan Hospital in Sioux Falls, said the 89-year-old former senator from South Dakota was admitted to the Sioux Falls hospital for fatigue after completing a lecture tour.
McGovern, a South Dakota congressman from 1957 to 1961 and U.S. senator from 1963 to 1981, ran for president against incumbent Richard Nixon in 1972 and lost in a historic landslide.
He ran for president three times, making a try for the nomination in 1968 and 1984 in addition to the 1972 race.
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I remember so many of my hippie friends back then in ‘72 were all gung ho about McGovern. I didn’t give a rip about politics in those days. Probably a good thing as I might have been influenced to be a liberal Dem. Perish the thought....
Thanks for pointing his history. Thank God he was never President. But I also thank God for his service in the War. He and the other vets of the great war deserve our respect.
Probably not, but the quote that he would “go beg the N. Vietnamese” to release the POWs was a campaign killer
Aside from the Eagleton fiasco
If you're not a liberal at 20, you have no heart. If you're not a conservative at 30, you have no brains.
Nope, he has been hiding about 15 miles East of me in St. Augustine Beach Florida. The local lefties are going bonkers, I expect to see a street renamed for him.
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