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in 1968, many americans thought they were voting to bring our sons home from vietnam in peace. and since then, 20,000 of our sons have come home and coffins. i have no secret plan for peace, i have a public plan. as one whose heart has eight for the past ten years over the agony of vietnam, i will halt the senseless bombing of indochina on inaugural day. it was 1972, 2:30 in the morning, and then presidential nominee george mcgovern delivered his acceptance speech. a few weeks later he would lose badly to president nixon. tonight, the candidacy and legacy of mcgovern. joining us from there is presidential author scott faris. scott, it is 2:30 in the morning when mcgovern delivers his acceptance speech in miami. why? well, the reason i think it was sort of emblematic of the whole distrust of the mcgovern campaign was, it was an insurgent campaign run against the establishment. what had happened was, as you heard senator mcgovern there, he was very strong on the issue o
AfghanistanSchool-houseFloridaUnited-statesAkronOhioChinaMinnesotaCaliforniaRussiaCambodiaMassachusetts i have a public plan, and as one whose heart has ached for the past eight years over the agony of vietnam, i will halt the senseless bombing of indochina on inaugural day. [applause] greta: it was 1972, 2:30 in the morning when george mcgovern delivered his acceptance speech. a few months later, he would lose badly to president richard nixon. the contenders. the candidacy and legacy of george mcgovern. we are live from the mcgovern museum in mitchell, south dakota. joining us from there is presidential author scott farris. acceptance speech in miami. why? scott: thank you, greta. of the structure of the mcgovern campaign. against the establishment. senator mcgovern, he was very, very strong on the issue of vietnam. one of the things that has drawn me to writing about senator mcgovern as one of the most who ran for the presidency who was not successful, he went after the vietnam issue. he spoke about that war in ways no presidential candidate had ever spoken about war before
AfghanistanUnited-statesBrocktonMassachusettsAkronOhioCaliforniaWhitehouseDistrict-of-columbiaRussiaConnecticutBerkeley nixon. tonight, the candidacy and legacy of george mcgovern. we are live from the mcgovern museum in mitchell, south dakota. joining us from there is presidential author scott farris. it was 2:30 when he delivered the acceptance speech in miami. why? scott: thank you, greta. i think it was because of the structure of the mcgovern campaign. he was running against the establishment. so it occurred to senator mcgovern, he was very, very strong on the issue of vietnam. one of the things that has drawn me to writing about senator as one of the most influential who ran for the presidency who was not successful, he went after the vietnam issue. he spoke about that war in ways no presidential candidate had ever spoken about war before. it was language as you heard that was mild compared to what i have heard it was strong , language that unsettled lots of americans and caused them to worry about how he would win the war. it was an insurgent campaign to end the war against the establ
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