Posted on 10/15/2012 7:24:21 PM PDT by markomalley
Senator George McGovern is receiving hospice care.
The family announced Monday afternoon that the senator is in Dougherty Hospice House in Sioux Falls.
It was just in August when the former Democratic presidential candidate gave up his homes in Mitchell and Florida to spend more time near family in Sioux Falls.
His daughter told The Associated Press on Monday that the longtime South Dakota senator is "coming to the end of his life." Ann McGovern declined to elaborate, but noted her 90-year-old father's recent health problems.
Last October, he was treated for exhaustion after a lecture tour. Two months later, he fell and hit his head just before a scheduled interview for a C-SPAN program about failed presidential candidates who've had a lasting impact on American politics.
The 90 year old McGovern was a three term U.S. Senator from the 1960s to the 1980s. He also served in the House of Representatives.
I’m a local that remembers the funerally. I watched it live just a mile or so away from the doings.
My sarcasm was no one remembers McGovern. Guess that makes me old - and then I understood what you were implying. For the record - I was 12 when McGovern ran.
Jumpin’ Joe would still do it. Give your vote up for George! Ha! And wouldn’t it be wonderful if 0bama won just one state a la McGovern. A girl can dream!
Yes, aid and comfort to the enemy in time of war. Wipes out his WWII record. My father and uncle also WWII combat vets and then career Army and Navy, respectively. Their five sons also vets from Vietnam through Gulf War I. We kept the faith and a belief in America. McGovern betrayed our country—that is his real legacy.
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While I never agreed with his politics, I have some strange connections with McGovern. He spoke at my high school graduation and after the graduation came to my parent’s home for a reception. I still have a photo of him standing with me. I used to date a girl who worked in his field office in Pierre, SD and now he is in a hospice only a few blocks from my home. Funny how things are connected sometimes.
I also cast my first Presidential vote for George McGovern, and have a genuine Mcgovern-Eagleton button stashed somewhere.
Young and naive, they say. Four years later I proudly voted for Gerald Ford and have never again cast a vote for a democrat on a national ticket, and given the state of their party, likely never will.
“In battle, as in his political life, he was always flying overhead and never putting his ass in the fight when it counted. “
You might want to research the rate of death for bomber crews.
He was drafted as a private, flew 35 dangerous missions. Left as first Lt. Nothing elitist or “walked away” or about that.
Nixon, Ford, Kissinger walked away from those same 50,000 dead Americans, too.
McGovern was not responsibile for our entering that war, or for the conduct of it.
for what it’s worth...he did his duty in WWII
McGovern was a sincere man though a foolish liberal and that would include terrible harm he did during the Vietnam war. He was a terrible presidential candidate ah, that was a time when republicans could do in a liberal democrat.
Many years ago I was in the Senate gallery got to see Barry Goldwater come in slowly with his cane, anyway McGovern wanted a farm aid bill but it had come out of committee with a comma in the wrong place, and he was being worked over by Robert Byrd and other democrat leaders. They insisted it go back to committee but they wouldn’t agree to support the bill once the comma was corrected. McGovern seemed a very sincere man, not afraid to confront them, but he was outmatched and out maneuvered by them.
Don’t you wish someone would forward this to Obama? He knows not the first thing about business, but hates capitalists and capitalism. He couldn’t run a successful lemonade stand.
I believe what McGovern favored was giving every American $1,000. Imagine if we could get off that cheaply today. His ideas were contemptible as were all liberal ideas, and yes he caused aid and comfort to the enemy and harmed our soldiers and allies with his leftism.
But I think he was misguided, not insincere. In contrast I think today’s liberal democrats are complete blood sucking phonies. Think Chuck Schumer. McGovern was not that type.
You bring back for me another McGovern obscenity that proved he was anything but the misguided humanitarian some here on FR think him to be.
It was the spring of 1975 and with McGovern leading it, Congress had cut off aid to the South Vietnamese goverment. The North Vietnamese Army immediately launched its massive final invasion of South Vietnam. As part of the evacuation of our allies, the Air Force launched “Operation Babylift” to get the kids of our Vietnamese friends out first. A C-5 Galaxy crashed during this effort.
While the airlift was in progress, Senator McGovern made a speech that Operation Babylift should be canceled so that the children of our Vietnamese allies would be left behind to “build socialism in the new Vietnam”! He would go on to praise the communist takeovers in Laos and Cambodia and ignored the bloodbaths that followed.
McGovern is a mean spirited man whose agendas cost the lives of millions in Southeast Asia and made 58,000 of our military die in vain.
It is said that Stalin on his deathbed saw the gates of Hell gaping before him, the fate of those who fail to repent their deeds on Earth. I doubt McGovern thinks he ever made a mistake in his life, other than his abortive foray into capitalism. No pity here.
I am also a Viet Nam Vet, USMC platoon leader, and was on the ground in I Corps along the DMZ when McGovern unexpectedly and un-invited showed up in Paris and disrupted the peace talks process. The North took this as a signal to fight on, America will loose out to the internal strife at home. The North stated this after the war.
There is a LOT of American service men's blood on McGovern's hands. He can go to hell and richly deserves it.
Thank you for your service. God bless the Marine Corps!
I flew Hueys & carried our wonderful “grunts” to all kinds of LZs. The infantry is the tip of the spear in any war. We chopper pilots were in awe of them.
Have you read “Trial By Fire” by Dale Andrade? The best account of our last full year in RVN and the Easter Offensive I have seen so far.
George McGovern backstabbed us in Vietnam and wanted communist victory. He will not be missed.
Thanks for the correction!
My own feelings exactly.
It is at times such as this that I am reminded of our common humanity...
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