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Eleven authors from Madison County will be taking part in the 28th annual Kentucky Book Fair on Saturday in Frankfort.

George McGovern has been a witness to history, as both a scholar and the first senator to oppose the Vietnam War.

The growing rift in the Republican Party, highlighted by yesterday's House election in New York's District 23 , reminds CBS's Bob Schieffer of the Democrats in 1972 and the presidential defeat of South Dakota's own George McGovern.

Ashland's Stacy Nelson and David Palmore will be among 200 writers participating in the 28th annual Kentucky Book Fair on Saturday.

Former U.S. Sen. George McGovern, New York Times reporter Dana Canedy and best-selling author Ann B. Ross will be among nearly 200 writers participating in the 28th annual Kentucky Book Fair on Saturday, Nov.

As South Dakota Democrats scan the horizon for a challenger to Sen. John Thune next year, one name starting to appear has a familiar ring to it.

George McGovern, the Democratic Partya s 1972 presidential candidate from South Dakota, spoke Saturday at Valiant Vineyards Winery on behalf of 2010 gubernatorial candidate state Sen.

Dozens of suburban high school teachers took on the role of pupils Friday, when former U.S. Senator and presidential candidate George McGovern turned the tables and give them a lesson in living history.

Though current events weren't on the agenda for the talk he gave Thursday at Northwestern, former Democratic presidential nominee and U.S. Sen.

Conservative politics is to me like religion. I had switched to the Republican Party so I could vote for my convictions at the time I moved to South Dakota.

Since the Iraq-Vietnam analogy they were so fond of citing no longer holds water, liberals have switched to applying the threadbare comparison to the war in Afghanistan.

Taylor Branch's account of his secret conversations with the US president raises fascinating questions about how history is made, writes Gaby Wood Bill Clinton at home in Arkansas in 1992, the year before he became president.

George McGovern speaking to KSFY in this file photo. Story Created: Oct 7, 2009 at 12:49 PM CDT Story Updated: Oct 7, 2009 at 12:49 PM CDT Former Senator George Mc Govern will be receiving the 2009 United States Capitol Historical Societya s Freedom Award.

He died instantly. 25 YEARS AGO: Former presidential candidate George McGovern visited the Gordon Meddaugh farm south of Granton yesterday where around 100 Mondale and McGovern supporters gathered.

Taylor Branch, a 1968 graduate of UNC and noted historian, has allowed many of his documents and recordings during Bill Clinton's presidency to reside with the Southern Historical Collection at Wilson Library.

I remember a time when I, as a Democratic firebrand, could sit down with a Republican demagogue and have a civil conversation.

Sarah Birn vividly recalls the last time she brushed elbows with Sen. George McGovern.

Former Democratic presidential candidate and ambassador George McGovern was in Syracuse Monday night to speak to the Le Moyne College community.

The next day Kruschev released photos of captured pilot Francis Gary Powers along with photos of his crashed U-2 spyplane.

Most people of a certain age know that George McGovern lost a presidential race to Richard Nixon in 1972.