George S. McGovern, 89, the former senator from South Dakota and Democratic presidential nominee in 1972, was released Thursday from a Florida hospital, a spokeswoman at Flagler Hospital in St. Augustine said. His daughter, Ann McGovern, said that tests to determine why he occasionally passes out and loses his ability to speak had been...
Former Senator George McGovern, the 1972 Democratic presidential nominee, was flown to a hospital in Sioux Falls after he fell and hit his head Friday before a planned television appearance on C-Span. His condition was not yet made public. Mr. McGovern, 89, fell outside the George and Eleanor McGovern Center for Leadership and Public Policy at...
R. Sargent Shriver, the Kennedy in-law who became the founding director of the Peace Corps, the architect of President Lyndon B. Johnson's war on poverty, a United States ambassador to France and the Democratic candidate for vice president in 1972, died on Tuesday in Bethesda, Md. He was 95. His family announced his death in a statement. Mr....
George Stanley McGovern, Ph.D (født 19. juli 1922) er en amerikansk politiker, der har siddet i Repræsentanternes Hus og i det amerikanske senat. I 1972 stillede han op som præsidentkandidat for Demokraterne, men tabte i et jordskredsvalg til Richard Nixon.
McGovern er kendt for sin modstand mod Vietnamkrigen. Han er nu de Forenede Nationers sultambassadør.