After Senator McGovern lost, he drifted a bit.

That same summer, Democratic disarray over Senator McGovern's nomination produced the anti-model for convention planners.

Their Presidential candidate, Senator McGovern, lost by nearly 18 million votes.

As a result, Senator McGovern was not able to deliver his acceptance speech on live national television until after most viewers had gone to bed.

Senator McGovern came to New Haven on May 16, plainly with the intention of running for President in 1972.

I think Senator McGovern is a good man and we need to get out of Vietnam.

At the Democratic convention, Senator McGovern got five of our congressional district's six votes on the first ballot.

And Senator McGovern replied: "You can't keep on campaigning forever."

Yet three years later, he endorsed the antiwar candidacy of Senator McGovern.

The idea, Senator McGovern said, makes "great public policy and wonderful national politics."