[jim_trent]

That was the first election I could vote in. I did not vote for him, but I did believe he was an honorable man (not a Clinton). Unfortunately, what he believed in and what I believed in were exactly opposite.

I will say something for McGovern. He never, never said "I told you so" after Nixon resigned.

[Froggie]

He was, and is, an honorable and decent man - whose ideas were as far left-leaning as you can imagine.
I agree, he would have been a terrible president overall, but his candidacy did aid in bringing an end to the Vietnam experience!
He has had a lot of personal tragedy in his life, losing a daughter to the ravages of drug addiction.
I was walking down a street in San Francisco about 5 years after the election. As I crossed the street, coming in the opposite direction was a man - by himself - with a rather blank, depressed look on his face - as I got closer, I recognized him as George McGovern. I actually felt sorry for him at that moment...
A wrong man for the country, indeed, but on the decent person scale, Clinton isn't worthy to tie his shoelaces!