a nice article about George McGovern... and a poignant one, too
Here's the poignant part:
Asked his thoughts on his 90th birthday, Sen. George McGovern replied without hesitation, “On to 100.” He stopped for a few minutes Thursday evening to take a few questions on his way up to a reception in his honor at the Newseum. “I think I’ll make it [to 100],” he said, proud that a recent checkup found nothing wrong with him, and gave the OK to party organizers to book the same room for 10 years from now.
Here's some of the nice part:
The friends gathered at the Newseum Thursday evening were there not so much to talk politics, but to commemorate McGovern’s long history with the issue of combating world hunger. He and then–majority leader Bob Dole had worked together as senators on issues relating to hunger, championing the food-stamp program and various food assistance efforts at home and abroad. Richard Leach, the president and CEO of World Food Program USA, which hosted the reception, said that “no one on the planet” had more of a profound impact on hunger. Dole had been expected to attend the festivities, but called that afternoon to say he couldn’t be there. He turns 89 in three days and has health challenges.
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi was the first to take the podium for a series of toasts to McGovern. “Thank you for being born,” she exclaimed. Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin recalled McGovern campaigning against the Vietnam War, saying he was “fed up with all these old men dreaming up ways for young men to die in war.”
Massachusetts Rep. Barney Frank held up a framed campaign poster from 1971 of himself with McGovern. It was his first House race. “With all the crap that was thrown at him and all the distortions, the purity of George McGovern did break through to the young people, and I was able to win on his coattails,” Frank said. “People should be envious of you, George. It must be a very great feeling to have lived the life you are living.”
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/07/20/george-mcgovern-celebrates-90th-birthday-with-washington.html
I'm sad that his death seems to be unexpected... although at 90, being healthy and active and involved till the very end is not a bad way to go.
He has always represented that what makes me proud to be a Democrat. 
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numb sense I read the news, he is and will always be one of the best this country has ever had.
I was too young to vote for him, but my family did.
"He has always represented that what makes me proud to be a Democrat" you are so right renate 
