George Stanley McGovern (born 1922), a U.S. senator since 1962 and an early opponent of the war in Vietnam, was the unsuccessful Democratic candidate for president in 1972.George McGovern was born on ...
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Hours and hours of conversations between then-President Clinton and award-winning historian Taylor Branch are being transcribed for a new book.Simon & Schuster will publish "Wrestling History: ...
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Pulitzer Prize-winning newsman Clark Hoyt has been named public editor of The New York Times, the newspaper announced Thursday.Hoyt, 64, is a veteran journalist who spent much of his career at Knig...
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Gallup polling over the past three decades shows Republican front-runners usually win their party's nomination, but Democrats do not. Some elections:1972-DemocratsFebruary 1971: Edmund Muskie, 26 p...
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Former Sen. Thomas Eagleton had the last word at his own funeral Saturday, urging his friends and family in a farewell letter to "go forth in love and peace _ be kind to dogs _ and vote Democratic....
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Hillary Rodham Clinton on Sunday rejected charges she's being secretive about her role as first lady in trying to overhaul the nation's health care system."There's been some misunderstanding and so...
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Rudy Giuliani doesn’t seem to be worried about the fact that he is not leading in the polls in Iowa, New Hampshire, or South Carolina, the states that hold the earliest nominating contests. H...
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The Clinton campaign is playing up the idea that the results of Iowa have historically been an aberration.
"Well, you know Iowa does not have the best track record in determining who the party's n...
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Are the Clintons really in any position to lecture Democratic voters about how irresponsible of them it would be to nominate Barack Obama?
For months, that's the game they've been playing -- warnin...
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On the left, it is increasingly fashionable to trash David Broder and his political pronouncements, which sometimes reflect an unusual and baffling level of sympathy for the White House.
But on ...
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George Stanley McGovern
New Bill Clinton book coming out in 2008
