A Prairie Liberal, Trounced but Never Silenced
• New York TimesGeorge McGovern, the United States senator who won the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination in 1972 as an opponent of the war in Vietnam and a champion of liberal causes, and who was then trounced by President Richard M. Nixon
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