George McGovern News

As a 48-year old, I am too young to have a first hand recollection of the role that former Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara played in shaping the Vietnam War.

Former Sen. George McGovern is scheduled to be on hand Friday as the McGovern Library at Dakota Wesleyan University commemorates his 87th birthday.

NEW YORK It didn't make The New York Times obituary today, but one of the most dramatic, and in some ways revealing, incidents in the long life of former Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara occurred in 1972 when a young man, reputedly angry about Vietnam, attempted to heave him off the Martha's Vineyard ferry, during its 7-mile voyage, and ...

In former Robert McNamara's 1995 memoir, "In Retrospect: The Tragedy and Lessons of Vietnam," the former defense secretary admitted that he knew the Vietnam War effort was futile even as the American military presence in Southeast Asia increased.

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The first time Arthur Schlesinger Jr. asked former presidential candidate George McGovern to take part in a series of books about American presidents, McGovern said no.

It's been nearly 40 years since he was at his political apex, but 1972 Democratic presidential nominee George McGovern still has some punch in Washington.

Bernard Leon Barker, a Cuban-born CIA operative who participated in the Bay of Pigs invasion and was later a Watergate burglar, has died in Florida.

At 86, former U.S. Sen. George McGovern agrees that he is 'very wise and plain-spoken,'' as a letter I had gotten in the mail said.

Most people associate George McGovern with his crushing defeat in the 1972 presidential contest against Richard Nixon and for being the face of anti-war liberalism and the peace movement during the Vietnam War more than four decades ago.

"This is the time to stand for things that are close to the American spirit," George McGovern proclaimed in 1972 as he accepted the Democratic Party's presidential nomination.

Published: Sunday, May 24, 2009 at 12:01 a.m. Last Modified: Saturday, May 23, 2009 at 9:56 p.m. In regard to the letter of May 18 by Owen Sear, M.D. ["Unions and Secret Ballots"], I believe his credibility to be somewhat tarnished when the first item requiring factual accuracy he doesn't know.

If you're old enough to remember or have studied history, you know George McGovern lost the 1972 presidential election to Richard Nixon because he was considered a dove .

At the North Shores Improvement Association monthly meeting May 11, Sacha Martin, president, shared that the Sunday Market is going well.

When Nancy Erickson from Brandon campaigned for George McGovern in fifth grade, she knew somehow she wanted to have a life in politics.

Should the U.S. leave the Middle East by Thanksgiving of this year? 'Yes,' according to George McGovern, former U.S. senator from South Dakota who ran for president in 1972.

A seven-year, nearly $1 million restoration of President Harry Truman's Little White House in South Florida is complete.

I spent some time exploring a counterintuitive sidenote in the Employee Free Choice Act fight: George McGovern's name has long been synonymous with the kind of principled, doctrinaire and politically suicidal liberalism that Democrats from Bill Clinton to Barack Obama work to avoid.

Retired business editor Jack Markowitz's columns are published on Sundays and Thursdays.

Thank you, Sen. George McGovern, for your editorial in the Jan. 22 Washington Post regarding U.S. involvement in the Middle East - 'Calling a Time Out.' Your vision is sorely needed, for continuing to spend millions of dollars and involvement in Afghanistan is not the way to go.