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15 Apr 2013, 9:00 pm by John Dean
  They returned on June 17, 1972 to fix the problems—and after that, they planned to move on to bug President Nixon’s opponent Senator George McGovern on Capitol Hill. [read post]
7 Feb 2024, 7:47 pm by Josh Blackman
Anderson, the Respondents' Theory Would Render Unconstitutional Every Speaker and President Pro Tempore Since 1789, as well President Grant's VP and Presidential Candidate George McGovern (2/4/24). [read post]
22 May 2014, 4:00 am by Administrator
Each Thursday we present a significant excerpt, usually from a recently published book or journal article. [read post]
13 May 2013, 7:26 pm by Kelly Phillips Erb
McGovern, President and CEO of the American Red Cross speaking from the front lines of natural disasters, your speeches, articles and appearances will be subject to scrutiny (to be clear, the last two folks are merely examples of high profile leaders of tax exempt organizations and are not examples of folks who have said anything inappropriate with respect to the elections). [read post]
3 Jul 2008, 9:30 pm
That same year, I got in a fight with the kid across the street because we were the only house on the street with a McGovern sign in our front yard. [read post]
15 Apr 2013, 5:50 am by John Dean
  They returned on June 17, 1972 to fix the problems—and after that, they planned to move on to bug President Nixon’s opponent Senator George McGovern on Capitol Hill. [read post]
22 May 2007, 6:10 am
Yesterday the AP reported: In grudging concessions to President Bush, Democrats intend to draft an Iraq war-funding bill without a timeline for the withdrawal of U.S. troops and shorn of billions of dollars in spending on domestic programs, officials said Monday. [read post]
6 Jul 2007, 11:21 am
George McGovern of South Dakota. 1973 1973 February 7 The Senate votes (77-0) to create the Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities. [read post]
1 May 2007, 8:16 am
Americans love having a guy as president, a guy who has a little swagger, who's physical, who's not a complicated guy like [former President Bill] Clinton or even like [former Democratic presidential candidates Michael] Dukakis or [Walter] Mondale, all those guys, [George] McGovern. [read post]
13 Sep 2010, 5:54 am by Mandelman
Nixon’s operatives breaking into and bugging the Democratic headquarters when McGovern had no chance of beating Nixon in 1972, was also not exactly stellar thinking on the part of U.S. government officials. [read post]
12 Feb 2007, 4:01 pm
Duke's Pauline Kael MomentA (perhaps apocryphal) story regarding the late New Yorker film critic, Pauline Kael: after Richard Nixon defeated George McGovern in 1972, Kael supposedly said, "How can that be? [read post]
17 Apr 2021, 2:04 pm
McGovern (D-MA), the Chair and Cochair, respectively, of the bipartisan and bicameral Congressional-Executive Commission on China (CECC), issued the following statement about the conviction and sentencing of multiple democracy advocates in Hong Kong for unauthorized assembly, including—Leung Kwok-hung (18 months), Jimmy Lai (12 months), Lee Cheuk-yan (12 months), Au Nok-hin (10 months), Cyd Ho (8 months), Albert Ho (12 months, suspended), Margaret Ng (12 months, suspended), Martin Lee… [read post]
10 Mar 2020, 12:06 pm
It is by now well known that the so-called Trade War between the United States and the People's Republic of China was merely a nice way of packaging for popular consumption (and narrative management) of a large group of objectives, impulses and trajectories that followed from decisions taken by both American and Chinese elites (lamentable in the opinion of some) since around 2012 (in China) and 2016 (in the US). [read post]
24 Sep 2021, 7:27 am
 Pix Credit: HERE The Chinese central authorities have developed the theme of the  "Black Hand" (黑手) of Foreign (US) Interference in the Internal Affairs of China's Administration of Hong Kong as a central element in its construction of what they hope will become the dispositive counter narrative of the "story" of the Hong Kong protests of 2019 and of the appropriateness and legitimacy of the responses of the central authorities from then to the… [read post]
22 Dec 2020, 2:33 pm by Joel R. Brandes
 Circumstances of contemporary daily interactions between men and women, warrants that the “opportunity” element of proof of adultery must be interpreted to mean more that mere “proximity,” but must instead necessarily mean “proximity plus. [read post]
26 Jun 2016, 4:33 pm by Kevin LaCroix
As detailed in a February 10, 2016 speech by the then-Chief Risk Office of Lloyd’s, Sean McGovern (a speech that was interesting at the time and that is even more interesting now), the U.K. [read post]