The Life of George McGovern: 1922-2012
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George McGovern, the three-term senator from South Dakota who lost the presidential race to Richard Nixon in 1972, died October 21. He was 90.
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McGovern stands in uniform in his position as an Army Air Force B-24 bomber pilot during World War II. He received the Distinguished Flying Cross award in 1944.
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McGovern and his wife Eleanor pose in their wedding photo in 1943.
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McGovern, right, joins Senator John F. Kennedy on the campaign trail in June 1960 in South Dakota. Both went on to victory, Kennedy as president and McGovern as senator.
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McGovern addresses a rally at Madison Square Garden in New York on June 14, 1972.
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McGovern sits in the cockpit of a training plane.
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McGovern, left, and Bob Dole are interviewed on ABC's "Issues and Answers" in Washington.
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McGovern appears as a guest on "Face the Nation."
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McGovern joins in a three-way handshake with Salvador Luria, a Nobel Laureate in biology from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and physicist Harry Palevsky of the Brookhaven National Laboratory, after they announced their support for his presidential campaign at a news conference in Boston in 1972.
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McGovern makes his acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention in Miami Beach in 1972. He lost the election in a landslide to President Richard Nixon.
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Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton poses with former Democratic presidential candidate George McGovern in 2007 before speaking at the Johnson County Democrats' annual barbecue in Iowa.
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Former senators Bob Dole and George McGovern receive a standing ovation on May 30, 2000, at the National Nutrition Summit in Washington.
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Former President Bill Clinton and McGovern talk during a press conference at the White House in Washington.
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McGovern talks with Rep. Barbara Lee, left, and Rep. Lynn Woolsey on Capitol Hill in 2007 prior to participating in a forum on U.S. foreign policy in Iraq.
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McGovern walks on the floor during Day One of the 2008 Democratic National Convention in Denver.
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