Former
U.S. Senator, D – South Dakota and 1972 Democratic presidential nominee, George
McGovern died Saturday October 13, 2012.
He was 90.
McGovern, was
defeated in the landslide re-election of incumbent President Richard Nixon in 1972,
A harsh critic of the
Vietnam War, McGovern only carried the State of Massachusetts and the District
of Columbia by the greatest plurality in history.
Burglars working for
Nixon’s Committee to Re-Elect the President (CREEP), were arrested June 17,
1972, while planting electronic listening devices in the National Democratic Party
Headquarters in the Watergate office and hotel complex.
The Watergate scandal
was not widely reported until after the election and would lead to the resignation
of Nixon. A number of his White House and campaign staff were: indicted,
convicted, and sentenced for numerous crimes.
These pictures were
taken during a June 5, 1972, McGovern primary campaign stop at Old Town Plaza, Albuquerque.
Senator Fred Harris,
D-Okla., left, sits with 1972 McGovern and Rep. Morris K. Udall, D-Ariz., at a press
conference at the Hacienda Restaurant in Old Town.
Harris, now a New
Mexican had also been a primary candidate in 1972 receiving two electoral
votes.
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