George McGovern, Democratic idealist and presidential candidate, dies at 90
(MCT) — George S. McGovern, an icon of American liberalism who campaigned for the White House with moral fervor against President Richard M. Nixon and the Vietnam War but lost in a landslide, died Sunday. He was 90.
McGovern died early Sunday morning while under hospice care in Sioux Falls, S.D., said Steve Hildebrand, a family spokesman. He had been hospitalized for various illnesses and injuries since taking a serious fall last December.
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