I suppose politicians have always wanted to get re-elected, but there's a kind of a feeling now that if you just discredit your opposition, it makes it easier for you to win. I don't think that's necessarily true.

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.