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President Barack Obama's decision to add 30,000 U.S. troops to the fight in Afghanistan displays shades of the Vietnam conflict, says former Sen.

George McGovern was a world war II hero, a principled politician and absolutely right about the foolishness of the war in Vietnam.

President Obama accepted his Nobel Peace Prize with a speech about American exceptionalism, the existence of evil in the world, and the necessity of using force.

George McGovern, 1972 Democratic candidate for president, who campaigned and lost on a platform against the Vietnam War: "I always ached for Johnson during the Vietnam period.

Last year Rick Perry won the Turkey Politician of the Year award for his prissy response to Mayor Bill White's cursing incident during Ike; this year he takes the whole turkey enchilada for a stunningly entertaining and embarrassing string of events that brought applause from the tea-bag minority of the country and derision from the rest.

Editor: History has proven former U.S. Sen. George McGovern to have been farsighted about many vital issues.

Henry Kimelman, whose fundraising and support for Sen. George McGovern in the 1972 presidential campaign earned him a spot on President Richard Nixon's "enemies list," has died.

ST. AUGUSTINE BEACH, Fla. -- A World War II veteran, former senator and former presidential candidate will be on hand this afternoon for a special Veterans Day ceremony.

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.