FILE - In this March 25, 1974 file photo, Sen. George McGovern of South Dakota listens to constituents as he arrives at Pierre, S.D. airport. A family spokesman says, McGovern, the Democrat who lost to President Richard Nixon in 1972 in a historic landslide, has died at the age of 90. According to the spokesman, McGovern died Sunday, Oct. 21, 2012 at a hospice in Sioux Falls, surrounded by family and friends.
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published Sunday, October 21st, 2012
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SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — George McGovern once joked that he had wanted to run for president in the worst way — and that he had done so.
