SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- George McGovern once joked that he had wanted to run for president in the worst way -- and that he had done so. It was a campaign in 1972 dishonored by Watergate, a scandal ...

Meacham, a Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer and professor at Vanderbilt University, is the author of the new book And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle The death of George ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) George McGovern made history with his loss of the 1972 presidential election in a historic landslide, but he was praised Friday for galvanizing the Democratic party's liberal ...

LOS ANGELES -- If you liked the Revolution of 1972, when the Democratic Party destroyed itself, you will love next year, when both parties seem determined to destroy themselves. Thirty-nine years ago, ...

ROANOKE, Va. - Three months before the 1972 presidential election, Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger huddled together in the Oval Office to discuss when and how to get out of Vietnam. Despite a ...