Word: mcgoverns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Taking credit for the acceleration of Vietnam negotiations. McGovern said. "There can be no question at all that we have pushed this country in the direction of peace, and I think each one of us loves the title of peacemaker more than say office in the land...
...McGovern, it was the end of a 22 month campaign in which he drove uphill to win the nomination but could not continue the ascent to the White House...
Concentrating on the major-industrial states. McGovern traveled over 200,000miles including 4,000 might be like day before the election...
...disclosure of Sen. Thomas F. Eagleton's history of mental illness helped obscure all issues by forcing McGovern to seek a new running-mate only days after the Democratic Convention ended. Combined with McGovern's reversal on his welfare proposals, the Eagleton affair permitted Nixon to depict the challenger as an incompetent who could not control his own staff, let alone the country...
...McGovern's attempt to make correction a chief issue in the campaign was unsuccessful. Pointing to a range of alleged scandals involving dairy farmers, wheel formers, ITT, and the bugging of the Democratic headquarters at Watergate, McGovern called the Nixon Administration "the most corrupt in American history." These criticisms seemed to backfire, however, as many voters objected to their shrill tone