Having already accomplished feats that haven’t been seen in 20-plus years at Penn State, Connor McGovern has moved on to making conference history. The Lake-Lehman grad became the first offensive ...

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 ...

Not published in LIFE. George McGovern, 1972. Former U.S. Senator and 1972 presidential candidate George S. McGovern (b. 1922) died in October 2012 after being admitted to a Sioux Falls hospice six ...

To most American voters in 1972, Democratic presidential nominee Sen. George McGovern of South Dakota was way too liberal on many issues—and he was beaten badly by incumbent Richard Nixon. But to many ...