leadership are sort of coming into question. that does feed into it, but it all is, you know, viewed through the prism of who is going to fix the economy and what is he going to do about it. you know what? in two weeks they ll decide. charlie hurt, great to see you. have a great day. thank you. jamie, as you ve been reporting this morning. former united states senator and 1972 democratic presidential nominee george mcgovern has decide. a family spokesman announced he was surrounded by family members and loved ones when he passed away. he was 90 years old and known as a liberal fire brand known for his opposition to the vietnam war. he also knew battle firsthand. he served in world war ii as a b-24 bomber pilot. bret baier has a look back at senator mcgovernogovern s caree. i love the united states, but i love it enough so i want to
women s mission. great to have you here. i want to start with a quote from george mcgovern who departed in an open letter he wrote to president obama upon his inauguration. when i entered the u.s. senate in 1963, the defense budget of 51 billion dlarls. that was at a time when our military experts felt it necessary to have the means to win a war against the combined powers of russia and chin. nether threatens us. nor does any other nation. i think the amount of spending increase in the last ten years, i think people haven t quite gotten their heads around it. when you take out the war funding, we have a doubling over the last ten years. we now have, in this we have a very clear distinction in this campaign as far as i can tell in how the spending is going to go forward.
we have a graph that shows this. this is the options on the table. the green line is mitt romney s idea. this is base spending. it doesn t include wars or security. if you talk about security spending, you get a larger amount of money. barack obama s proposed leveling and the see quest ration. larry, you worked on this issue for a long time. what has changed? what has changed, i think the late senator mcgovern pointed out. we don t have a threat, yes, we have a threat with terrorism. you are not going to win it with a lot of nuclear weapons or huge armies and navies. when you tell people, even republicans if you control for inflation, take the base budget, you will go back to where you were in 2007. nobody was complaining then. the other thing was, even with it, i don t think we should do it automatically, but i think you can do it correctly.
when you can t do the normal things. to help, sleep train is collecting donations for the extra activities that, for most kids, are a normal part of growing up. not everyone can be a foster parent. but anyone can help a foster child. shepard: we have word the former democratic nominee george mcgovern is no longer responsive in hospice care. the now 90-year-old is nearing the end of his life. he appears peaceful and rested. the former south dakota senator is in hospice care in his home state. senator mcgovern known for running against president nixon in 1972. nixon won in a landslide. senator mcgovern served a term in the house of representatives before spending decades in the senate. he was a leader of the democrats liberal wing and dedicated recent years to fighting world hunger.
upward bound. you know those causes. tonight the farewell to the man behind them, robert sargent shriver jr. died after a struggle with alzheimers. as a politician the democratic never won an election. george mcgovern chose him as his running mate in 1972 after having electroshop therapy. they only lost one state to nixon/agnew. he was an aid to his brother-in-law john k. kennedy and the founding director of the peace corps. later as a foot soldier in the johnson war on poverty he create maryland of the programs i just mentioned all that exist to this day. earlier president obama called him one of the brightest lights of the greatest generation. sarge came to embody the idea of public service. sargent shriver was 95 years old. now we know why the angry birds are angry because we