Sunday, October 21, 2012

McGovern Dies in Sioux Falls Hospice

         George McGovern, the United States senator who won the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination in 1972 but lost to President Richard M. Nixon and was an opponent of the Vietnam War and a champion of liberal causes, died this morning, Sunday, at 90 in a Sioux Falls, S.D., hospice at 5:15 a.m.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-19967537

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/george-mcgovern-senator-nixon-rival-dead-90-article-1.1188588

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/22/us/politics/george-mcgovern-a-democratic-presidential-nominee-and-liberal-stalwart-dies-at-90.html?pagewanted=1&_r=0

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/sns-rt-us-usa-mcgovern-diesbre89k06i-20121021,0,5962602.story


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