George McGovern

(noun)

A historian, author, and former U.S. Representative, U.S. Senator, and the Democratic Party nominee in the 1972 presidential election.

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Examples of George McGovern in the following topics:

  • The Election of 1972

    • In 1972, Nixon beat George McGovern in a landslide reelection victory due to negative views on McGovern's campaign.
    • In the presidential election of 1972, Richard Nixon beat the Democratic nominee, Senator George McGovern of South Dakota, by a significant margin.
    • McGovern won only the state of Massachusetts and the District of Columbia.
    • Instead, Maine Senator Edmund Muskie, Hubert Humphrey's running mate in 1968, became the front runner, with South Dakota Senator George McGovern a close second place.
    • Eagleton accepted the nomination despite not personally knowing McGovern well and privately disagreeing with many of McGovern's policies.

  • The Nixon Administration

    • In 1972, Nixon was reelected, defeating Democratic senator George McGovern in a landslide victory.

  • The Election of 1968

    • The second faction, which rallied behind Senator Eugene McCarthy, was composed of college students, intellectuals, and upper-middle-class whites who actively opposed the war.
    • Some members of this group, probably older ones remembering the New Deal's positive impact upon rural areas, supported Vice President Humphrey, but most rallied behind George C.
    • In the end, the nomination itself was anticlimactic, with Vice President Humphrey handily beating McCarthy and McGovern on the first ballot.
    • Nixon also proposed government tax incentives for African Americans to start small businesses and make home improvements in their existing neighborhoods.

  • 1968: The Year of Upheaval

    • McNamara, the Secretary of Defense who had overseen the escalation of the war but had eventually turned against it, stepped down from office.
    • With Johnson's withdrawal, the Democratic Party quickly split into four factions, each of which distrusted the others: labor unions and big-city supporters of Vice President Hubert Humphrey; college students and upper-middle-class whites who actively opposed the war and rallied behind Senator Eugene McCarthy; Catholics, African-Americans, Hispanics, and other racial and ethnic minorities who were passionate supporters of Senator Robert F.
    • Kennedy; and white Southern Democrats, or "Dixiecrats", who rallied behind Alabama governor George C.
    • In the end, the nomination itself was anticlimactic, with Vice President Humphrey handily beating McCarthy and McGovern on the first ballot.
    • Nixon also proposed government tax incentives for African Americans to start small businesses and make home improvements in their existing neighborhoods.

  • McClellan's Peninsular Campaign

    • Union General George B.
    • The operation, commanded by Major General George B.
    • McClellan was initially successful against Confederate General Joseph E.
    • Although the president doubted the utility of the plan, he allowed McClellan to enact Urbanna and named specific officers as corps commanders to report under McClellan directly.
    • On March 11, President Lincoln removed McClellan from his position as general chief of the army, ostensibly so McClellan could focus on the Urbanna Plan, though later in his life McClellan would argue the decision was made to ensure the failure of his campaign.

  • The Disputed Election of 2000

    • In the disputed and extremely close 2000 presidential election, Democratic candidate Al Gore lost to Republican George W.
    • The United States presidential election of 2000 was a contest between Republican candidate George W.
    • George W.
    • John McCain emerged as the main contender.
    • Because the 2000 presidential election was so close in Florida, the U.S. government and state governments pushed for election reform to be enacted before the 2004 election.

  • Hamilton's Economic Policy

    • George Washington appointed Alexander Hamilton as the first U.S.
    • According to historian Forrest McDonald, Hamilton saw his office, like that of the British First Lord of the Treasury, as a position from which he would not only direct fiscal policy, but also oversee his cabinet colleagues under the elective reign of George Washington.
    • In his assessments, Hamilton decided that the country's debt fell into three broad categories: those owed to foreign governments and investors; those owed by the national government to American merchants, farmers, soldiers, and other holders of Revolutionary War bonds; and those owed by state governments.
    • The money would come from public funds and private investors willing to lend to the federal government.
    • Later in the Supreme Court case of McCullough v.

  • The War in the Chesapeake

    • Starting in March of 1813, a squadron under British Rear Admiral George Cockburn started a blockade and raided towns along the bay from Norfolk to Havre de Grace.
    • After the U.S. government officials fled from Washington, First Lady Dolley Madison remained behind to organize the slaves and staff to save valuables from the British.
    • The Battle of Fort McHenry was no battle at all.
    • The only light was given off by the exploding shells over Fort McHenry, illuminating the flag that was still flying over the fort.
    • Describe the burning of Washington, D.C. and the subsequent battles of Baltimore and Fort McHenry

  • War, Empire, and an Emerging American World Power

    • With the landslide election victory of William McKinley, who had risen to national prominence six years earlier with the passage of the McKinley Tariff of 1890, a high tariff was passed in 1897 and a decade of rapid economic growth and prosperity ensued, building national self-confidence.
    • Meanwhile, Commodore George Dewey's fleet crushed the Spanish in the faraway Philippines.
    • The US demanded Spain stop its oppressive policies in Cuba; public opinion (overruling McKinley) led to the short, successful Spanish-American War in 1898.
    • This stated that the United States could intervene in Latin America in cases that the government deemed necessary.
    • " to the waiter, president William McKinley.

  • The Debate over American Imperialism

    • A "social-democratic" theory says that imperialistic U.S. policies are the products of the excessive influence of certain sectors of U.S. business and government—the arms industry in alliance with military and political bureaucracies and sometimes other industries such as oil and finance, a combination often referred to as the "military-industrial complex. " The complex is said to benefit from war profiteering and the looting of natural resources, often at the expense of the public interest.
    • The anti-imperialists opposed the expansion because they believed imperialism violated the credo of republicanism, especially the need for "consent of the governed. " They did not oppose expansion on commercial, constitutional, religious, or humanitarian grounds; rather they believed that annexation and administration of 3rd world tropical areas would mean the abandonment of American ideals of self-government and isolation—ideals expressed in the United States Declaration of Independence, George Washington's Farewell Address and Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address.
    • Many of the League's leaders were classical liberals and "Bourbon Democrats" (Grover Cleveland Democrats) who believed in free trade, a gold standard, and limited government; they opposed William Jennings Bryan's candidacy in the 1896 presidential election.
    • Instead of voting for protectionist Republican William McKinley, however, many, including Edward Atkinson, Moorfield Storey, and Grover Cleveland, cast their ballots for the National Democratic Party presidential ticket of John M.
    • "President McKinley fires a cannon into the Imperialist Strawman," by W.A.