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First Week: A Ragged Start, and Obama's Real Problems

William Bradley | Posted 04.14.2012

Read More: World News, Karl Rove, Barack Obama, Egypt, Mitt Romney, George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, North Korea, Hilary Rosen, Iran, Media News, Iraq, Israel, Syria, Ann Romney, George Mcgovern, Titanic, Politics News

After Rick Santorum's sudden withdrawal essentially handed the Republican nomination to Mitt Romney, on the 100th anniversary of Titanic setting sail on its fateful voyage, President Barack Obama had a mostly good week.

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George McGovern Hospitalized

AP | CHET BROKAW and KRISTI EATON | Posted 04.05.2012

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SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — Former South Dakota senator and Democratic presidential candidate George McGovern has been hospitalized in Florida, his daug...

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A Senator Remembered for the Wrong Reason

Al Eisele | Posted 05.14.2012

Read More: Tom Eagleton, Edward Kennedy, George Mcgovern, Johnny Apple, Richard Nixon, Sargent Shriver, Politics News

Earlier this month, the St. Louis University School of Law paid tribute to the late Sen. Tom Eagleton by hosting a celebration of the Missouri Democra...

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Former Democratic Presidential Candidate George McGovern Hospitalized After Falling, Hitting Head

AP | AMBER HUNT | Posted 02.01.2012

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SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — Former Democratic presidential candidate George McGovern was hospitalized Friday after he fell and hit his head on the pavem...

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Vietnam War's Biggest Opponent Says He Told Obama To End Iraq War

The Huffington Post | Alana Horowitz | Posted 11.16.2011

Read More: Obama Troop Withdrawal, Iraq War, u.s. Foreign Policy, Video, George Mcgovern Iraq, Iraq War Ending, Vietnam War, Iraq Troop Withdrawal, Obama Iraq End, George Mcgovern Vietnam War, Iraq Drawdown, George Mcgovern, Obama Iraq, Politics News

A slew of comparisons have been made between the wars in Iraq and Vietnam. So it should come as no surprise that George McGovern, former Democratic pr...

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The U. S. Government's Largest Means-Tested Anti-Poverty Program Has Severe Problems

Robert Auerbach | Posted 11.12.2011

Read More: Milton Friedman, Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC), Douglas Schulman, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, John Kennedy, Nina Olson, University of California Los Angeles (U.C.L.A., Beverly Hills, George Mcgovern, Lyndon Johnson, Watts), Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Barack Obama, Politics News

During these dire times for millions of people, many of whom have been unemployed for long periods, the nation's safety net is mangled and inefficient.

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The Employee Free Choice Act is Back; The National Labor Relations Board has Awakened a Sleeping Giant

Wendy N. Powell | Posted 08.22.2011

Read More: Employee Free Choice Act, Nlrb, President Obama, Efca, Congress, Wendy Powell, Nlra, George-Meany, George Mcgovern, Politics News

Keep an eye out for the newly proposed changes to the National Labor Relations Act. They are remarkably similar to the Employee Free Choice Act. The ...

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George McGovern and the Tea Party

Robert Slayton | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: 2012 Presidential Race, Tea Party, Obama 2012 Elections, Obama 2012 Campaign, Elections 2012, Barack Obama 2012, Obama 2012, George Mcgovern, Politics News

McGovern lost to Richard Nixon, in one of the biggest landslides of twentieth century American history. What lessons does this experience have for the right today, and what does it foretell?

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John Boehner: Tears, Cheers and Jeers

Tom Alderman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Weeper of the House, Congress, Holiday Season, John Boehner, Richard Nixon, Speaker of the House, Crying, Cnn, Edmund Muskie, Anderson Cooper, TV Show, Reality, Democrats, Joy Behar, George Mcgovern, Politics News

CHEERS to Ohio Congressman John Boehner for being able to cry in public when he talks about his hard-scrabble-to-Speaker life story. It's kind of real...

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Exhaust the Limits: New Book Speaks to One Man's Successful Mission to Help Humanity

Jim Luce | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ceuca, Rotary International, Loyola University Maryland, Great Lakes College Association, Catholic Relief Services, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Peace, Sargent Shriver, Martin Buber, Global Citizens, Hubert Humphrey, Afs, Paul Tillich, U.S. Olympic Committee, Africa, Turfism, Harris Wofford, Peter Paul and Mary, Peacemaking, I Have a Dream Speech, Rwanda, Poverty, Alliance for Peacebuilding, Washington D.C., Paul Stevers, Albert Camus, Apprentice House, Experiment in International Living, George Mcgovern, Sister Cities, Operation Respect, Fulbright Scholars, Martin Luther King, Hutus, Colombia, Glca, Jimmy Carter, Carol Bellamy, Peace Through Moderation, Tutsis, Mercy Corps, Thought Leaders, Extremism, Ethiopia, Sam Farr, Social Responsibility, Affluence, Jim Luce, Charles ?Chic? Dambach, Peace Corps, Fidel Castro, U.N., Kai Dambach, Exhaust the Limits:, Justice, Conflict Resolution, Peter Yarrow, Bill Clinton, Care, Les Miserables, Nea, U.S. Foreign Aid, New York City, Oiww, Appalachia, Fundamentalist Mindset, Bogotá, Three Cups of Tea, Haiti, Orphans International Worldwide, Techendama, Eritrea, World News

Although our lives have turned out different, I learned in my friend Charles "Chic" Dambach's exciting new book, Exhaust the Limits, that we have much...

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Memo to Daily Beast's Peter Beinart: Sarah Palin is No George McGovern

Jeff Biggers | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Peter Beinart, Richard Nixon, 1972, Daily Beast, David Broder, Sarah Palin, George Mcgovern, Media News

Over at the Daily Beast, Peter Beinart is usually on the mark, but his latest missive--Palin is the New McGovern--not only misses the boat, but unfair...

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No, Really -- Dems Should Party Like It's 1972

Rick Horowitz | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: 1972 Election, George Mcgovern, 1994 Election, Richard Nixon, 1980 Election, 2010 Midterm Elections, Republican Takeover, Senate Takeover, Mcgovern Campaign, Politics News

"I didn't leave the Democratic Party, they left me," disaffected Dems told themselves in 1972. Now how many sensible Republicans are looking at the sudden rise of the Tea Party and thinking exactly the same thing?

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Mad Men: "The Summer Man" Is Clearing His Head

William Bradley | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: 1960s, New York, Matthew Weiner, Nelson Rockefeller, Don Draper, Jon Hamm, Mad Men, Gary Hart, John Lindsay, George Mcgovern, Beatles, Rolling Stones, Entertainment News

It doesn't look like Matt Weiner is much of a Beatles fan. We've had Bob Dylan, the Beach Boys, and now the Rolling Stones ... but the lads from Liverpool have been relegated to Christmas gifts for Don's kids bought by his former secretary.

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Gary Hart's New Memoir Shows the Continuity in Contemporary History

William Bradley | Posted 05.25.2011

Reading the book I'm struck by the threads of continuity running from 1970 to 2010. America was in a state of imperial overstretch, riven by a foolish war and roiled by divisive politics. And Hart has had a unique vantage point throughout.

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Unanimous Conformity in the Senate

Norman Solomon | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: White House, John McCain, MoveOn.Org, William Fulbright, David Petraeus, Afghanistan, George Mcgovern, Frank Church, Carl Levin, Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, Senate, Robert Kennedy, Politics News

Every living senator voted Wednesday to approve Gen. David Petraeus as the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan. Call it the unanimity of lemmings -- except the senators and their families aren't the ones who'll keep plunging into the sea.

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House Race in S.D. Could Be Decided on Indian Reservations

Tim Giago | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Indian Heath Care Reform, Indian Reservations, Tom Daschle, Stephanie Herseth Sandlin, South Dakota, Health Care, Kristi Noem, George Mcgovern, Politics News

In a tight race in South Dakota, the Indian vote is usually the decider. The Stephanie Herseth-Sandlin vs. Kristi Noem race is shaping up to be that kind of a race.

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The NY Times: Those Who Live in Glass Houses...

Len Levitt | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Adrian Schoolcraft, Public Editor, Al Vann, Paul Browne, Clark Hoyt, Ray Kelly, Thomas Eagleton, Nypd, New York Times, New York City Council, Corey Kilgannon, Faisal Shahzad, George Mcgovern, New York News

It's not easy being a reporter for the Times. Besides the layers of assignment, desk and copy editors, reporters have to contend with a professional second guesser, known as the Public Editor.

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A Humbling Experience in One of Africa's Largest Slums

George McGovern | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Kiberia, Starvation, Hunger, Kenya, World Hunger, Africa, Malnutrition, Uganda, World Food Programme, George Mcgovern, HIV/AIDS, Impact News

I firmly believe that school meals are the most important form of assistance that the United States can give in Kenya and other parts of the world. The children can bring a better future.

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The Independent Bookstore: Cherished, But Too Quickly Vanishing

Ellen Sterling | Posted 05.25.2011

The other night I attended the monthly meeting of the Las Vegas Writers Group. The speaker at the meeting was Debra Belkoff. Her expertise is in book ...

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The Lion, the Glitch, and the Centerfold

Michelle Schweiger Schecter | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Scott Brown, Gop, White House, Evan Bayh, Ben Nelson, Celinda Lake, President Obama, 2010 Elections, Curt Schilling, Massachusetts, George Mcgovern, Massachusetts Senate Race, Martha Coakley, Democratic Party, Jim Webb, Paul Kirk, Charles Schumer, Ted Kennedy, Politics News, Health Care, Scott Brown Massachusetts, Richard Nixon, David Axelrod, Health Care Reform, Massachusetts Special Election, Massachusetts Election, Elections 2010, Politics News

The Liberal Lion is rolling over in his grave His seat even the President could not help save A state senator for only five years Has brought the Democratic establishment to tears

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Mr. President, Can the Ghosts of Vietnam Talk You Down?

Dan Siegel | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Lessons in Disaster, Afghanistan, Vietnam War, LBJ Vietnam, Audacity of Hope, President Obama, Ted Sorensen, Daniel Ellsberg, Stanley Karnow, Afghanistan War, George Mcgovern, Politics News

Dear Mr. President: It is stunning to me that a humane and discerning mind like yours is being dragged further into an unnecessary and unwinnable war. Please listen to your inner compass.

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Counterfeit 'Public Option' Holds Americans Hostage to Inflationary Private Insurance Costs

Michele Swenson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Blue Dogs, Jacob Hacker, Kip Sullivan, Comprehensive Coverage, Cost Control, Health Care Reform, Congressional Revolving Door, Physicians for a National Health Program, Market-Based Public Option, Medicare-for-All, Stephie Woolhandler, Health Care Lobbyists, Public Option, George Mcgovern, Don McCanne, Pharmaceutical Lobbyists, Deficit Hawks, Politics News

Democratic leaders have short-circuited the reform "debate" and permitted the process to be hijacked by health insurance and pharmaceutical industries.

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George McGovern: Get U.S. Troops Out Of Afghanistan

Truthdig | Narda Zacchino | Posted 05.25.2011

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George McGovern has some advice for President Barack Obama: Get U.S. troops out of Afghanistan. "I'm convinced that war is going to turn sour. I'm co...

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To End War in Afghanistan, Reinstate Military Draft?

Brent Green | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bill Clinton, Military Lottery, Vietnam War, Draft, Theodore Sorensen, Taliban, George Mcgovern, Afghanistan, Karzai, Barack Obama, Diem, Politics News

U.S. invasions of Vietnam and Afghanistan have eerie similarities. Both had ill-defined military goals, especially exit strategies, making them seemingly endless.

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Taylor Branch To Reveal "The Clinton Tapes"

GQ | Wil S. Hylton | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: John F. Kennedy, Bill Clinton, 1964 Civil Rights Bill, Monica Lewinsky, Hillary Rodham Clinton, George W. Bush, Martin Luther King Jr., George Mcgovern, Fidel Castro, Richard Nixon, Vietnam War, Whitewater, Taylor Branch, Katherine Graham, Lyndon Johnson, Politics News

It has been nearly forty years since three young Democratic activists named Bill Clinton, Hillary Rodham, and Taylor Branch moved into a small apartme...

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