I always thought of myself as a moderate liberal, a fighter for peace and justice. I never thought of myself as being all that far out.

McGovern born in 1868 was pastor of the local Wesleyan Methodist Church there. In October 2006 the $8. McGovern recognized the mixed results of his 1972 candidacy saying "We made a serious effort to open the doors of the Democratic Party – and as soon as we did half the Democrats walked out.

He was elected to the U. Re-elected Senator in 1968 and 1974 McGovern was defeated in a bid for a fourth term in 1980. As the first director of the Food for Peace program in 1961 McGovern oversaw the distribution of U.