(UPDATE: George McGovern will not be speaking in Tampa on December 1. Read here for more details).
George McGovern is coming to speak in Tampa early next month on behalf of his new book, What it Means to be a Democrat.
The 89-year-old former U.S. Senator from South Dakota is best known of course for his unsuccessful bid for the presidency in 1972, where he lost badly to Richard Nixon, just as the Watergate saga was unfolding. Less than two years after Nixon took 49 states in that electoral blowout, he resigned from office.
This article appears in Nov 24-30, 2011.
