Standing on a sidewalk of New York are (L-R) Professor Richard Wade; Mayor Robert F. Wagner; Mrs. Matilda Krim; Senator George McGovern; and Arthur Krim, the head Of United Artists.
Steven A. Levine
Coordinator for Educational Programs
“George McGovern is a man of tender and responsive
conscience . . . of strong loyalties, high principles and fierce convictions. He
has shown that he does not flinch or flag in the face of either opposition or
of even the most prohibitive odds. “ Mayor Robert F. Wagner, New York State
Chairman of the McGovern presidential campaign, at the opening of the Buffalo,
NY Democratic Headquarters, 1972.
Senator George McGovern lost in a landslide to President
Richard Nixon in 1972, but this son of a Methodist minister, decorated World
War II pilot, and historian should be remembered for his commitment to peace,
civil rights, social justice and opposition to the Vietnam War. He was a hero and a patriot. (Click here to read his New York Times obituary.)
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