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I am 1,000 percent for Tom Eagleton and I have no intention of dropping him from the ticket.
George McGovern
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George McGovern
Age: 90 †
Born: 1922
Born: July 19
Died: 2012
Died: October 21
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George Stanley McGovern
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I always thought of myself as a good old South Dakota boy who grew up here on the prairie.
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I am a liberal and always have been - just not the wild-eyed character the Republicans made me out to be.
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Every once in a while, I run into somebody who tells me that she met her husband in my campaign or a husband who says, I met my wife. I have to tell you, I caused a few divorces too.
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It's nice not to have to worry about constituents, now, I simply do what I want.
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I am fed up with a system which busts the pot smoker and lets the big dope racketeer go free.
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I did frequently refer to my war record in World War II, but not in any flamboyant way.
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I flew a full string of 35 combat missions over some of the most heavily defended targets in Europe. We were hitting Hitler's oil refineries, his tank factories, his aircraft factories, his railway yards. Those were our prime targets.
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We seem bent upon saving the Vietnamese from Ho Chi Minh, even if we have to kill them and demolish their country to do it....I do not intend to remain silent in the face of what I regard as a policy of madness which, sooner or later, will envelop my son and American youth by the millions for years to come.
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When I was small, my most serious handicap was a painful bashfulness in the presence of strangers.
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