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Published July 07, 2012, 12:00 AM

McGovern nomination 40 years later


Sen. George McGovern gestures to a throng of about 20,000 people assembled at Madison Square Garden June 14, 1972, in New York. The next month, McGovern, who grew up in Mitchell, won the Democratic presidential nomination at the party’s convention in Miami. (AP photo)


  • Sen. George McGovern gestures to a throng of about 20,000 people assembled at Madison Square Garden June 14, 1972, in New York. The next month, McGovern, who grew up in Mitchell, won the Democratic presidential nomination at the party’s convention in Miami. (AP photo) <br /><br />
  • George McGovern is busy working on his speech for his next campaign stop as his grandson Matthew Rowan, 9 months old, crawls about his desk aboard the “Dakota Queen” plane in St. Louis, Nov. 5, 1972. Matthew has since changed his last name to McGovern and is now running for the Public Utilities Commission in South Dakota. (AP photo) <br /><br />
  • U.S. Sen. Thomas Eagleton, the vice presidential nominee, and Sen. George McGovern, the presidential nominee, stand before the delegates to the Democratic National Convention in the final session in Miami Beach, Fla., July 13, 1972. Eagleton was later dropped from the ticket following the revelation that he had undergone treatment for mental depression. (AP photo)<br /><br />
  • Members of California’s 271-person delegation, led by actress Shirley MacLaine, right, show support for George McGovern at the Democratic National Convention in 1972. (AP photo) <br /><br />
  • Portraits of assassinated brothers Robert F. Kennedy and John F. Kennedy provide a backdrop as Sen. George McGovern accepts the Democratic presidential nomination at the closing session of the Democratic National Convention in Miami Beach, Fla., in this July 14, 1972, photo. (AP photo)
  • In this Jan. 22, 2011, file photo, former Democratic presidential nominee and U.S. Sen. George McGovern arrives for the funeral Mass for R. Sargent Shriver at Our Lady of Mercy Parish in Potomac, Md. (AP photo)