Monday, October 22, 2012

BULLETIN: AP Mobile: George McGovern dies; lost 1972 presidential bid

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George McGovern dies; lost 1972 presidential bid

thumbnail 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 that fully unfurled too late to knock Republican President Richard M. Nixon from his place as a commanding favorite for re-election. The South Dakota senator tried to make an issue out of the bungled att...

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