Portland/O bserver
T hun da y, July 20, 1972
Pace 3
Senator George McGovern meets the press during campaign stop In
Portland, D ire ctly behind the Senator Is D r. Robert Hughley, and
next to D r. Hughley, Blaine Whipple, McGovern’ s stale chairman.
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SENATOR ŒORCE MCGOVERN
M rs. (.leaner McGovern spent an afternoon at Bethel Child
C enter- ' fo rm e r volunteer, child care centers
and child development are among M rs. McGovern’ s prim e
interests.
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Stan Mac Kenzle opens the McGovern campaign head qua
in Albina p rio r to the prim ary election.
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McGovern: The man and his record
Geoige McGovern , the son
o! a M et!odlat ii.uu-.tei, was
bom in South Dakota In 1922.
Graduating
from Hie public
schools, lie atteraled Dakota
Wesleyan U niversity. Iheday
after Pe i r l Harbor he enlisted
in da Lnny A ir I
-, liv
ing 35 missions over Europe
and North A frica aa a tximher
pilot.
He was awarded the
Distinguished Flying Cross
fo r valor.
A ltei the w ai, M o de««»
returned fo r his hachelorsde
gree it Dakota Weslyan, then
earned his doctorate .it North
western. He taught political
science ami history at Dak
ota Wesleyan.
McGovern m arried his high
sch< - i
labeling
pe m e t ,
Eleanor stegeleig in 1944.
I hey have three daughters and
a son.
McGovern ran lorCongress
ami a lte r serving two term s
••as appointed D irector of the
<1 fo r Peace Program by
isldent John Kennedy. In
2 he was elected to tlie
’ i ted St ites Senate amt s-
i ’ me i leading spok-- iman
• r -e la im ei s of the Plains
ate ..
A’te r R o le n Kennedy was
aaaasslnateil, McGovern
urged to hold Kennedy's antl-
• r supporters together by
ining himself at theNatlon-
i Convention. He received
1 1/2 delegate votes after
a -3 day campaign ami be-
can a one of tie leaders ot
tie Democratic P arty.
On January 18, 1972, Mc-
Covem form ally announced
his candidacy fo r the office of
Presklent of t ie ! nltedStates.
senator George McGovern
was nominated by the Demo
c ra tic National Convention on
July 12, 1972.
Senator Geoige McGovern’ s
record in the Senate Is that
of the typical lite ra l demo
c ra t. Coming from a farm
state, McGovern’ s major in
terest when he entered the
House of Representatives In
1957 was related to rural
development and prices. In
196-1, lie pushed through Con
gress a wheat program that
p rovklal federal support to
farm er« w illing to sign up
voluntarily. The p r o g r a m
served as a model fo r other
farm subsidy programs ami
Is one of McGovern’ s major
l.v ia la tlv e accomplishments.
In 1958 he helped pass a
new food stamp law. In 1959
ponent of the an ti-b a llistic
am) I960 he co-sponsored b ills
m issile system and haacalled
that expanded the school m ilk
fo r cuts in L\S. forces in
program.
Europe. He said In 1971, “ |
Senator McCovern’ s secoral
find America so absorbed in
m ajor area of Interest Is
war and armaments, so g rlp -
pe.tce and foreign affaire.
ped by the paranoia of cold
Although he voted fo r the
war fears and the quest fo r
lonkln Resolution, lie Im
absolute security through ab
mediately regreted that vote.
solute power that we have
He was one of the firs t Sena
undermined the real sources
tors to speak out against the
of our national greatness.”
Vietnam war. His firs t c r it i
Senator McGovern stated !n
cism of the war was on Sep
his acceptance speech that on
tember 24, 1963, when he
his inauguration day he w ill
termed the war ” A moral
halt all L\S. bombing in South
bebacle and political defeat.’ ’
east Asia and bring home the
His opposition to the war In
troops w ithin 90 days. He
creased after a v is it to the
would also terminate all m ili
battle front In 1965. The day
tary aid to the governments
Lefoie the Cambodian Invasion
of Southeast Asia.
In 1970 lie Joined with Senator
McGovern proposes cutting
Mark Hatfield to sponsor an
defense spending to $54.8
atnemlment to cut off funds
billion a year beginning In
fo r tlie war by the end of
July, 1974 and a reduction of
1971. The move was defeated
manpower from 2.4 m illio n
tail was reintroduced In 1971
men to 1.7 m illio n men.
ami Is s till pending. McGovern
On economic matters, M>
was one of the fir s t to ques
Govern Is one of the sponsors
tion the draft, advocating an
of a pending tax reform bill
all-volunteer army.
that would ’ ’ close tax loop
In 1963 McGovern voted to
holes” ami raise an additional
ratify tlie limited nuclear test
$16 billion. He would raise
ban treaty ami voted to ratify
corporate taxes am! raise in
tlie nuclear non-proliferation
heritance and g ift taxes. He
tieaty of 1969. He Is an op-
advocates that the federal
government pay a third or
more of public education costs
ami provide Incentives fo r
state and local tax reform .
His Income distribution plan
to replace welfare would sub
stitute
minimum In c o m e
giants fo r most welfa re grants
ami pesonal Income tax de
ductions.
Those in higher
Income levels would be re
quired to pay higher taxes.
McGovern has long been
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m inorities and has been a co
sponsor of every piece of
m ajor c iv il rights legislation
in the last decade. On Su
preme Court nominations, he
voted against Clement Hayns-
worth, Harold Carswell and
W illiam Rehnquist. He has
consistently supports busing
of school children to reduce
racial isolation. He was one
of the early supporters of
the 18 year old vote and the
Equal
Rights fo r Women
.amendment.
McGovern favors a feder-
al!y funded National Health
C a rt Plan.
He ra re ly dis
cus -e . c (me wlthoutexplain-
ing what te calls the "so cia l
roots
i,
crim e ” — poor
housing, inadequate educa
tion, poor nutrition and penal
institutions that spawn more
crim e.
He would end pre
ventive detention, wiretap-
ping, no-knock searches, and
mandatory
minimum sen
tences. He favors outlawing
small handguns but Is against
restrictions on hunting rifle s.
He does not favor the legali
zation of marijuana but be
lieves its use should carry
lesser penalties. He c a lls fo r
a massive crack-down on
pushers of hard drugs. He
is the chairman of the Senate
Select Committee on N utrition
and Human Needs and on the
Senate Indian A ffa irs Subcom
m ittee.
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