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Oral history transcript, George McGovern, interview 1 (I), 4/30/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • Senator Robert Kennedy to decide to run when he finally did announce? GM: Yes. But what happened is that when this group went up to see McCarthy, he surprised both them and me by readily agreeing. Really, I was shocked--pleasantly so--when Gene came
Oral history transcript, George McGovern, interview 2 (II), 2/3/2011, by Mark Updegrove (Item)
  • and Robert Kennedy; civil rights legislation debate; civility among legislators; the New York Times not running a story about Senator James Eastland referring to Anwar Sadat as a "nigger;" McGovern and Frank Church meeting with Hubert Humphrey about support
  • of proud of the way I handled myself at the 1988 [1968?] convention. I wasn't in opposition to Hubert Humphrey, even though he was for the war. I was kind to Robert Kennedy, even though he announced against us at native South Dakotan[?]. I came out