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...GEORGE MCGOVERN has a new office in Washington now, a few miles uptown from Capitol Hill, at Dupont Circle. He still hasn't broken the place in yet: it's a bit understaffed, scantily furnished, and the walls are bare except for some old McGovern '72 posters. This is the first new office George McGovern has had in eighteen years. The one he used to have, in the Russell Senate Office Building, belongs now to James Abdnor, the New Right Republican who won the 1980 election for senator in South Dakota...
...McGovern always wanted to seem like an outsider, a fresh face. But that was image-building: after all, George McGovern is very much a veteran politician. It is therefore a bit surprising that he doesn't greet you with standard politician's etiquette--no slap on the back, no patronizing compliment for your home state. He just shakes your hand firmly, his youngish face breaking into the familiar half-moon smile, and asks, with genuine interest, what's on your mind...
...years," he says. "So for at least the next two years, I don't want to be on a schedule, to be tied down to anything." That explains why the South Dakotan turned down several prestigious job offers after November, including the chancellorship of the University of Massachusetts system. McGovern is satisfied for now writing articles and lecturing on politics once a week at Louisiana State New Orleans...
...turns, naturally enough, to the New Right's role in defeating McGovern--and other liberal senators--in 1980. It was never easy for him to win elections in a conservative farm state, McGovern points out, and with South Dakota's voters already evenly divided, the New Right's sophisticated media campaign--hitting hard at McGovern's liberal stand on abortion--may have been decisive. The former senator seems genuinely hurt by the Right's effort to label him a "baby killer." "What really hurt me the most were people who I knew, who'd supported me in the past...
NAVY 14, YALE 7: A toughie, a real toughie. My crystal ball says Yale. My crystal ball said Hearns. And the Patriots. And McGovern...