Eleanor McGovern has died

[kybob]

my condolences to the family.

MSNBC.com


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Wife of ex-Sen. McGovern dies
Eleanor McGovern suffered heart problems for years
The Associated Press
Updated: 10:54 a.m. ET Jan 25, 2007
MITCHELL, S.D. - Eleanor McGovern, the wife of former Sen. George McGovern, has died at the family's home in Mitchell, according to a Mitchell funeral home. She was 85.

Eleanor McGovern has suffered heart problems for five years and underwent bypass surgery last year. She had been under hospice care at the couple's Montana home, the former senator has said.

Visitation is planned for Friday from 6 to 8 p.m. at First United Methodist Church in Mitchell, said Michelle Bittner, owner of Bittner Funeral Chapel. The funeral service is planned for 2 p.m. Saturday at the Methodist church.

George McGovern, a former congressman and senator, was a leading opponent of the war in Vietnam. He was the Democratic nominee for president in 1972, losing to Richard Nixon.

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URL: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16807407/from/RS.1/

[JohnnyLib2]

1. Good people, the McGoverns.

That's sad to hear.

[T Wolf]

4. That they are. Our condolences to the family.

That the ex-Senator is not now an again-Senator is a loss for all of us.

[Greeby]

2. Bugger

:(

[Junkdrawer]

3. So sad...George is one of my heroes...

:(

[speedoo]

5. Sen. McGovern is still my hero.

RIP, Eleanor.

[Adelante]

RIP Mrs. McGovern

[sinkingfeeling]

6. Very sad, but to be expected. Senator McGovern is still one of my favorite

statesmen.

[Benhurst]

7. She had a good, long life. My sympathies go out to her family. NT

[Parche]

8. Mcgovern

I saw him last week on Olbermann
My condolences, they are a good family.

[tblue]

9. She shoulda been First Lady, instead of Pat, wife of Dick Dastardly

[Sal Minella]

10. My "McGovern - Shriver '72" button (white on blue) is still on my political hat.

Statesman. Isn't that a lovely word. Pity we can use it so seldom now.

[demnan]

11. I'm sorry for their loss

sounds like she had been ill for quite some time. It shows the kind of person McGovern is that he has been active in the anti-war debate, in spite of his personal problems.

[Old and In the Way]

12. Sorry to hear this.

Rest in Peace Mrs. McGovern. I'm sure she had a fulfilling life, lived with one of our great American political leaders.

[fooj]

13. RIP

[Tom Joad]

14. Much condolences to George.

[Vidar]

15. My sympathies to her family.

[Burma Jones]

16. Farewell

[cosmicdot]

17. my condolences

http://www.mcgoverncenter.com/eleanor.htm

a more detailed obit
http://www.naplesnews.com/news/2007/jan/25/eleanor_mcgovern_wife_former_sen_george_mcgovern_d/?latest



"McGovern married Eleanor Stegeberg of Woonsocket, South Dakota on October 31, 1943. The two had met during a high school debate in which Eleanor and her sister Ilya defeated McGovern and his partner." - wiki

"'Come home, America', the most moving, the most resonant, the truest political slogan in the history of our Republic, was suggested by Eleanor McGovern ..."


she would have made a wonderful First Lady

[Lena inRI]

37. Great photo and statue of the McGoverns. . .

and over at this link for the McGoverns' Library opening day, this photo of McGovern enveloped by the stars and stripes is righteously impressive. . .

http://www.mcgoverncenter.com/gallery01/index.html
mcgov_library075


peace with you Sir, and your family.
:patriot: :patriot: :patriot: :patriot:

[Judi Lynn]

18. They were treated very poorly by the "liberal" press. What a damned pity.

Eleanor McGovern pins silver pilot wings on her husband, newly-commissioned Second Lt. George McGovern, on April 15, 1944, at Pampa Army Air Field, Texas.

http://www.airportjournals.com/Index.cfm?IssueDate=0605

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Goldberg a Veteran at Recording Gossip (McGovern campaign spy)
By George Lardner Jr.
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, February 4, 1998; Page A12



Lucianne Goldberg was paid well in 1972 to funnel gossip to the Nixon campaign. (AP)

When Eleanor McGovern complained loudly about a chipped-beef breakfast that never appeared, the Nixon White House was promptly informed.

When her husband, 1972 Democratic presidential nominee George S. McGovern, started a speech by flubbing a joke, the president's men were quickly notified.

And when McGovern was mortified one night in Chicago by an introductory speaker who complained of the McGovern campaign's lack of spirit, it was reported back to Washington by midnight. "McGovern looked as though he could crawl under the table," the Nixonites were told after the Oct. 10, 1972, dinner.

The urgent reports, delivered to the White House by special courier, came from a $1,000-a-week spy planted in the McGovern press corps. Nixon, his White House tapes show, referred to her by her code name, "Chapman's friend."

But the agent's real name was Lucianne Cummings Goldberg, now back in the news as the book agent behind the taping of former White House aide Monica S. Lewinsky's account of her alleged relationship with President Clinton.
(snip/...)

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/clinton/stories/goldberg020498.htm

[blm]

20. Treated like dirt and shunned by Dem party leaders the last 3 decades.

This is the part of the Dem party that is most loathsome to me.

Certain leaders buy into and push the RW lies against honest solid Dem lawmakers just for the opportunity to advance the party closer to the corporatocracy and the right wing.

Peace to the entire McGovern family.

[regnaD kciN]

22. Democrats eating their own...

I often point out that the reason Republicans were able to rebound from the 1964 landslide and more or less take over the White House for the next forty years was that they built from the core of Goldwater loyalists and stayed true to the principles of that movement. (Principles we might not think too much of, but that's scarcely the point.) As a result, people "knew where Republicans stood," from Goldwater in '64 to Reagan in '80 to Dubya in '00.

Contrast this to the Democrats, whose predictable response to an electoral loss is to shun the losing candidate and renounce his principles as "too liberal," while executing another sidestep to the "center." (As my wife pointed out during yet another of Clinton's "movement's to America's center," if he made one more such move he'd fall into the Atlantic.) As a result, Democrats rarely seem to stand for anything, unless it's "don't worry -- we're not like our last candidate!" :eyes:

[blm]

23. Exactly. They know damn well the media concocts the lies even as they rush

to validate the lies told.

[brentspeak]

24. Well put

[blm]

35. Your post is so right on that it deserves its own thread.

I would bet Sen. McGovern would appreciate the motive of your post, too.

[MonkeyFunk]

19. aw, that's sad

they lost a daughter a few years back, too.

[regnaD kciN]

21. Does anyone have an e-mail contact...?

I'm sure people here would like to send condolences to the Senator personally. The only contact addresses at the McGovern Center are for a couple of the employees there.

[frogbison]

25. Eleanor McGovern dies

Eleanor McGovern, partner of George McGovern, has died. She was 85. Link to story:

http://www.startribune.com/466/story/960110.html

I think the world of George McGovern. If I can find a better address to send tributes and condolences, I will post it. For now, below is the mailing address of The George and Eleanor McGovern Library and Center for Leadership and Public Service, which "was dedicated October 7, 2006. President Bill Clinton and other dignitaries spoke at the event. The library opened its doors to the public on August 28th, 2006, providing a new, state-of-the-art facility for the campus community and public users. The new building offers 45,000 square feet for library collections, student study space and classrooms, and a 2,500 foot Legacy space honoring George and Eleanor McGovern."

The McGovern Center for Leadership and Public Service
DWU Box 924
1200 West University Avenue
Mitchell, SD 57301

[pitohui]

26. sorry to hear it, may she rest in peace EOM

,

[eleny]

27. Rest in peace...

My condolences to the family.

[merci_me]

28. Condolences to Senator McGovern and family

May she rest in peace. Eleanor McGovern was a beautiful lady, inside and out. I was priviledge to spend two days during the primary of 1972, traveling through NW Ohio with Mrs. McGovern, her twin sister and Dennis Weaver. Mrs. McGovern was so warm, tiny and gentle and amazingly strong and firm.

[MethuenProgressive]

29. Thank you for letting us know. K&R

[partylessinOhio]

30. Eleanor McGovern was the "wife" of George McGovern not partner(?).

Eleanor was so petite and cute. I remember her campaigning in the '72 election always carrying a shoulder handbag.



Rest in peace.

[ronnykmarshall]

31. That was a strange headline, huh?

[saracat]

33. I was going to correct that too! Thank you for noticing.RIP Eleanor.

She was agreat lady.

[Judi Lynn]

38. Great photo of the couple. Thanks. n/t

[confludemocrat]

32. A wife, but not only. A true partner in many other senses was prob. the meaning

it's all good

[frogbison]

34. Yes, thank you.

[burrowowl]

36. My condolences to the family

She would have made a better First Lady than Pat Nixon.

[jwirr]

39. We held a party for George during the campaign when he came

to our town to make a speech. She came while he attended another function. She was a great lady. My children were young but they have never forgotten meeting her. My condolences Senator.

[maddogesq]

40. How fitting her name was Eleanor. Bless her. NT

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[Jack Rabbit]

41. Condolences to Senator McGovern and his children and grandchildren

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[NJCher]

42. anyone see him on C-span recently?

He was on about a week or two ago, promoting the book he wrote on a way out of Iraq. He wrote the book with Wm. Polk, an authority on the Middle East.

While I have always been impressed with George McGovern, I continue to be impressed because of his relentless efforts toward peace.

Here is his book cover:



I feel so sad about his loss. On the other hand, 85 years is a long life and she and George were lucky to have each other.



Cher

[oasis]

43. The McGoverns were blessed to have so many good years together. (eom)

[Ken Burch]

44. The First Lady we SHOULD have had in 1972.

I've always remembered the news report on the campaign in which Mrs. McGovern made a campaign stop and someone was holding up a sign that said "put another Eleanor in the White House".

The McGoverns stood for the best in the Midwestern prairie populist tradition. Damn the Democrats for Nixon/DLC for aiding and abetting the Nixon landslide. There was nothing that justified the party regulars cutting the ticket loose that year.

[devilgrrl]

45. RIP Eleanor

[burrowowl]

46. May she rest in peace

My condolences to the Senator and who should have been President. What a different world it would have been.

[salin]

47. RIP Mrs. McGovern, Condolences and wishes for Peace

to the family.

[bcoylepa]

48. Buy his book

sympathy to the family
I just bought his book - THe Way out of Iraq - informative and sensible - suggest buying it and reading it and passing it on- the next time someone says the Dems have no plan - throw it in their face
I met George McGovern when he was doing a book tour about his book Terry - the story of his daughter and her losing struggle with alcoholism- beautiful book - beautiful man