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George 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 in the general election, died early Sunday in Sioux Falls, S.D. He was 90.
-- New York Times
I am sorry that I am not more familiar with the liberal leader, but I suppose Nixon sort of overwhelmed the era, and McGovern's relative obscurity, perhaps even tinged with the foulness of ignominy for being such a big 'loser', helps to illustrate the failure of the liberal program for the last four decades along with the dysfunction of American politics that has led us down this plutocratic path.
-- New York Times
I am sorry that I am not more familiar with the liberal leader, but I suppose Nixon sort of overwhelmed the era, and McGovern's relative obscurity, perhaps even tinged with the foulness of ignominy for being such a big 'loser', helps to illustrate the failure of the liberal program for the last four decades along with the dysfunction of American politics that has led us down this plutocratic path.
