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Originally Posted by BombaySapphire3
I saw George McGovern speak at a Unitarian church about 9 years ago when he had wrtitten a book about his daughter Terry,an alcoholic that died of hypothermia in Madison Wisc.This man had such incredible prescence and I could feel the warmth and compassion radiating from him .It made me hang my head in shame that I live in a nation that elected a Nixon instead of him.I guess things have not really changed too much though have they?
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Lucky you that you got to see him.
The parallels between then and now are getting to be quite striking.
Of course, Nixon dogged him at every turn during the campaign because the Democratic Party's headquarters had been bugged. The "liberal media" portrayed McGovern as some kind of radical because he wanted to end the war, pass the ERA and insure a guaranteed minimum income for all Americans. Wallace was shot. And then there was the whole thing with Eagleton being dumped midstream and replaced with Shriver.