American politics should be mourning the loss of
George S. McGovern. The former Senator from South Dakota died Sunday at age 90.
You can read retrospectives on McGovern pretty much
anywhere. He represented the people of South Dakota diligently & for three
terms in the US Senate, suffered one of the worst defeats in presidential
electoral history & yet remained a public servant in the very best sense of
that term.
(McGovern was the target of Nixon’s Dirty Tricks
campaign of Watergate fame.)
The man was gracious, generous, conscientious,
considerate. In fact, if ever there was a gentleman in US politics, it was
McGovern. He, in fact, was a statesman.
From the time of his first Senate term, beginning in
1962, McGovern was at the forefront of US and global campaigns to wipe out
hunger. He felt it was the duty of governments to help those of its citizens
who were least able to help themselves.
What a concept!
I can’t think of anyone in either house of Congress
who comes within the same Area Code of McGovern’s sense of honor & duty. American
politics should be mourning that.
But they’re not.
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