George Mcgovern

Cold, it was so cold. "Hey," a man cried, opening the back door of his print shop. "There's a little kid, passed out in the snow." Another man tramped into the alley, where a small body in a jacket lay under an awning of icicles. "It's not a kid," he called. It was a woman, her hands tucked under her chin. He touched her neck. "And I don't think she's passed out." He felt her hands. "Call 911." The fingers were frozen hard. Her skin was colorless. Her socks had iced onto her feet.

My favorite moment of the 2012 presidential debates came at the beginning of the final confrontation Monday night. The moderator, Bob Schieffer, invited both candidates to "give your thoughts" on the Middle East. Republican nominee Mitt Romney went first and began with a typical stumbling attempt to be charming, almost successful in its very failure: Something about an earlier "humorous event" (it was the annual Al Smith dinner for the archdiocese of New York, at which politicians tell jokes)

Re "Nixon opponent was a liberal titan," Obituary, Oct. 22 The passing of George McGovern serves as a reminder that there once was decency in national politics and that being called a liberal was not an insult. Suffering a staggering 49-state loss in the 1972 presidential election, McGovern conceded defeat with grace and characteristic good humor. Within two years both members of the opposition Republican ticket that defeated McGovern had resigned in disgrace. McGovern was one of the first senators to call for U.S. withdrawal fromVietnam.

Re "Hometown heartlessness," Column, Oct. 19 As a past resident of Costa Mesa and more recently a volunteer at the Someone Cares soup kitchen, I am incensed at the cruelty of Costa Mesa Mayor Eric Bever's threats to close the kitchen. The place is run professionally by the staff and loads of volunteers, many of whom may have crossed county lines. Every day you can count on these folks to give so many of the community's needy a hot meal and some compassion. Maybe Bever should visit the kitchen or lend a hand and talk to community members before he calls the place a nuisance and wants it shut down.

George S. McGovern, a three-term U.S. senator from South Dakota who was the Democratic Party's nominee in the 1972 presidential contest, died today at age 90, the Associated Press reported. McGovern's campaign against President Nixon and the war in Southeast Asia attracted millions of angry, anti-establishment voters. But his bid for the White House was hurt by two factors: Nixon's effort to sabotage the Democrats, which became known as the Watergate affair, and McGovern's choice of Sen. Thomas Eagleton of Missouri as his running mate.

VICE PRESIDENT Dick Cheney recently attacked my 1972 presidential platform and contended that today's Democratic Party has reverted to the views I advocated in 1972. In a sense, this is a compliment, both to me and the Democratic Party. Cheney intended no such compliment. Instead, he twisted my views and those of my party beyond recognition. The city where the vice president spoke, Chicago, is sometimes dubbed "the Windy City. " Cheney converted the chilly wind of Chicago into hot air. Cheney said that today's Democrats have adopted my platform from the 1972 presidential race and that, in doing so, they will raise taxes.

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 thundering landslide, has died. He was 90. McGovern died Sunday morning while under hospice care in Sioux Falls, S.D., said family spokesman Steve Hildebrand. He had been hospitalized for various illnesses and injuries since suffering a serious fall last December. A three-term U.S. senator from South Dakota, McGovern won the Democratic presidential nomination in 1972.

It was a time for rejoicing rather than mourning, former Sen. George McGovern (D-S.D.) told the more than 700 people attending a memorial service for nutritionist Nathan Pritikin in Santa Monica on Thursday. Pritikin, a former inventor who developed a controversial regimen of a low-fat, low-cholesterol diet and strenuous exercise to combat heart disease, committed suicide in an Albany, N.Y. hospital last week by slashing his forearms with a razor blade.

Thirty-five years ago, with the United States riven by an unpopular armed conflict in a faraway land, the Democratic Party responded by nominating for president its most vocal antiwar candidate: George McGovern. Friday night, not far from the Capitol where debate over another war is an almost-daily occurrence, veterans of the McGovern campaign and others gathered at a reception to pay homage to him. The parallels between the fight he led against the U.S.

Comedian Denis Leary once bluntly identified the problem with requiems about celebrity substance abusers: "I'm drunk, I'm nobody. I'm drunk, I'm famous. I'm drunk, I'm dead." Teresa McGovern was famous only in the context of her father, the former U.S. senator and 1972 Democratic presidential nominee, George McGovern. She was an alcoholic who died a ghastly, banal death in 1994 at the age of 45--she was found frozen in a Madison, Wis.

Re "Nixon opponent was a liberal titan," Obituary, Oct. 22 The passing of George McGovern serves as a reminder that there once was decency in national politics and that being called a liberal was not an insult. Suffering a staggering 49-state loss in the 1972 presidential election, McGovern conceded defeat with grace and characteristic good humor. Within two years both members of the opposition Republican ticket that defeated McGovern had resigned in disgrace. McGovern was one of the first senators to call for U.S. withdrawal fromVietnam.

When I heard about the death of former Sen. George McGovern, I had a fleeting thought that President Obama might invoke him at Monday's foreign policy debate -- perhaps as part of an argument that Mitt Romney would be too willing to take the nation into war.  I had second thoughts when I saw the White House's statement of condolence, which has angered some of my liberal friends for the conspicuous absence of any reference to McGovern's 1972 campaign against...

George S. McGovern, a three-term U.S. senator from South Dakota who was the Democratic Party's nominee in the 1972 presidential contest, died today at age 90, the Associated Press reported. McGovern's campaign against President Nixon and the war in Southeast Asia attracted millions of angry, anti-establishment voters. But his bid for the White House was hurt by two factors: Nixon's effort to sabotage the Democrats, which became known as the Watergate affair, and McGovern's choice of Sen. Thomas Eagleton of Missouri as his running mate.

Reaction to the death of former Sen. George McGovern focused Sunday on his work promoting peace and bringing attention to world hunger. “George McGovern once said that after he had passed away, he wanted people to say, 'He did the best he could to end hunger in this country and the world.'  Indeed, he did,” House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said in a statement. “He was a humanitarian with a tactical touch, and he saved the lives of many at home and abroad.” The White House, praising McGovern for his service in World War II and Washington, called him “a statesman of great conscience and conviction,” and a “hero of war” who became “a champion for peace.” And former President Bill Clinton, who coordinated McGovern's 1972 presidential campaign in Texas, and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton released a join statement about the passing of their longtime friend.

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 thundering landslide, has died. He was 90. McGovern died Sunday morning while under hospice care in Sioux Falls, S.D., said family spokesman Steve Hildebrand. He had been hospitalized for various illnesses and injuries since suffering a serious fall last December. A three-term U.S. senator from South Dakota, McGovern won the Democratic presidential nomination in 1972.

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau Renowned baritone championed German lieder Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, 86, a renowned baritone who led a worldwide revival in popularity for German lieder, died in his sleep Friday at his home in the southern German city of Starnberg, his family said. The respected interpreter of classical art songs and opera performed for more than five decades primarily on European stages while also touring worldwide and recording extensively. He became best known for his renditions of songs by Franz Schubert and Gustav Mahler.

For a moment here Saturday, as he appeared before the most exuberant crowd of the day, Vice President Dan Quayle could reach back into the past and snarl at the ghost of the last Democratic President. "Remember a guy named Jimmy Carter?" he asked supporters gathered at a senior citizens center. "You see what Jimmy Carter and the Democratic Congress did to us in the late 1970s? Weak. Impotent. Lost respect not only here at home, but around the world."

Howard Terpning paints how the West was lived and lost more than 120 years ago. His subject is 19th century Native Americans, although he is not their descendant. Some of his canvases aim to capture the courage, dignity and desperation of the fight to keep their land. Many are carefully detailed depictions of the ways of life they fought to save. "Tribute to the Plains People," now at the Autry National Center of the American West in Griffith Park, is the biggest solo show of Terpning's career - a retrospective that covers 35 years and documents his standing as the acknowledged leader of a popular but not universally admired movement in which paintings become time machines into the Old West.