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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.

George McGovern

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George McGovern
Age: 90 †
Born: 1922
Born: July 19
Died: 2012
Died: October 21
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To those who charge that liberalism has been tried and found wanting, I answer that the failure is not in the idea, but in the course of recent history. The New Deal was ended by World War II. The New Frontier was closed by Berlin and Cuba almost before it was opened. And the Great Society lost its greatness in the jungles of Indochina.
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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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My father was a clergyman and always said: 'Hate the sin but love the sinner.'
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