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June 18, 2006 Guest - George
McGovern
Program: The Perfect Silent Crime
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 George
Stanley McGovern, a Representative and a Senator from South Dakota; born
in Avon, Bon Homme County, S.Dak., July 19, 1922; attended the public
schools of Mitchell, S.Dak., and Dakota Wesleyan University, 1940-1942;
enlisted in the United States Army Air Corps in June 1942, flew combat
missions in the European Theater, and was discharged from the service in
July 1945; returned to Dakota Wesleyan University and graduated in 1946;
held teaching assistantship and fellowship at Northwestern University,
Evanston, Ill., 1948-1950, receiving his Ph.D. from that university in
1953; professor of history and government at Dakota Wesleyan University
1950-1953; executive secretary of South Dakota Democratic Party
1953-1956; member of Advisory Committee on Political Organization of
Democratic National Committee 1954-1956; elected as a Democrat to the
Eighty-fifth and Eighty-sixth Congresses (January 3, 1957-January 3,
1961); was not a candidate for renomination in 1960, but was
unsuccessful for election to the United States Senate; appointed special
assistant to the President January 20, 1961, as director of the Food for
Peace Program, and served until his resignation July 18, 1962, to become
a candidate for the United States Senate; elected to the United States
Senate in 1962; reelected in 1968 and 1974 and served from January 3,
1963, to January 3, 1981; chairman, Select Committee on Unmet Basic
Needs (Ninetieth Congress), Select Committee on Nutrition and Human
Needs (Ninety-first through Ninety-fifth Congresses); unsuccessful
candidate for reelection to the U.S. Senate in 1980; unsuccessful
candidate for Democratic presidential nomination in 1968 and 1984;
unsuccessful Democratic nominee for President of the United States in
1972; lecturer and teacher; U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Food
and Agricultural Agencies in Rome, Italy, 1998-2001; awarded the
Presidential Medal of Freedom on August 9, 2000; appointed United
Nations Global Ambassador on World Hunger in 2001.
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