Family says George McGovern "no longer responsive"

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. The family of former U.S. Sen. George McGovern says the 90-year-old is "no longer responsive" in hospice care.

McGovern's family issued a statement Wednesday afternoon through Avera McKennan Hospital.

His daughter, Ann McGovern, earlier told The Associated Press that her father is "nearing the end" and appears restful and peaceful. She says it's a blessing that she and other family members are able to be with him.

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McGovern was the Democratic presidential candidate who lost to President Richard Nixon in 1972 in a historic landslide. He was a member of the U.S. House from 1957 to 1961 and a U.S. senator from 1963 to 1981 and led the leader his party's liberal wing during that time.

In recent years, he turned his focus to world hunger.

[mtracy99]

If people had put McGovern in office and had listened to common sense, instead of the propaganda spewed by America's right-wing militarists, we could have saved about 20,000 US lives and the lives of a half-million Vietnamese. We could have also avoided the scourge of the Watergate conspiracy.

[mtracy99]

If people had put McGovern in office and had listened to common sense, instead of the propaganda spewed by America's right-wing militarists, we could have saved about 20,000 US lives and the lives of a half-million Vietnamese. We could have also avoided the scourge of the Watergate conspiracy.

[askagain]

I did not agree with McGovern's politics but I respected him greatly. To me, McGovern is an honorable person and a man of great dignity.

[RobinTexas]

WHile Robert Kennedy first stirred my interest in politics (I was 16 years old,) George McGovern sirred me to action. I campaigned and cast my first vote in a presidential election for him in 1972. I was, then, still naive enough to believe that a good man like McGovern could defeat the awful machinations of someone like Nixon and was crushed when he didn't. But but my admiration for Mr. McGovern has never dimmed. I will mourn his loss, and the fact that there are so few like him in politics these days.

[RobinTexas]

WHile Robert Kennedy first stirred my interest in politics (I was 16 years old,) George McGovern sirred me to action. I campaigned and cast my first vote in a presidential election for him in 1972. I was, then, still naive enough to believe that a good man like McGovern could defeat the awful machinations of someone like Nixon and was crushed when he didn't. But but my admiration for Mr. McGovern has never dimmed. I will mourn his loss, and the fact that there are so few like him in politics these days.

[royalstar05]

Move on George, move on.

[RobinTexas]

Take a hike, Royalstar05, take a hike.

[Thinkbeforeyouwrite]

Maybe because he was a war hero and saw the worst of war, he fought so hard for ending the Viet Nam war. He was the extreme opposite of a chicken hawk. It is strange now to see the ads for travel to Viet Nam. So many lives lost and now we can be tourists where they fell. What a crazy world we live in. To repeat part of what someone else said "Blessed are the peacemakers for they will be called sons of God". I usually refrain from citing scripture but, in this case, it is so fitting. RIP, Senator McGovern.

[T_Mininger]

I didn't always agree with him but he was a great man.

[T_Mininger]

I didn't always agree with him but he was a great man.

[audemus]

A decent and honorable man is about to leave us....good journey George McGovern.

[Henri_Rochard]

I'll say this about George McGovern: He flew 25 missions over enemy territory in a B-24 Liberator during World War II.
IMHO, that makes him more of a man than most of our other recent Presidents.