Just after 12 midnight EDT on June 17, 2072 – exactly 50 years ago – the notorious break-in at the Democratic party’s headquarters in the Watergate complex in Washington, D.C. took place.
That weekend I was in New York City, covering the New York primary that would take place three days later on June 20, 1972. That last primary of the 1972 presidential election season would essentially confirm Sen. George McGovern’s nomination for president on the Democratic Party ticket to oppose President Richard Nixon in the fall election. I had press credentials and was traveling in New York with McGovern on his campaign’s press bus and plane. As the candidate who championed peace in Vietnam (which Richard Nixon had promised when he ran and was elected in 1968 but did not deliver on), McGovern was supported by many young voters that year which was the first election that dropped the minimum voting age to eighteen.
In 2009, I wrote about encountering George McGovern 30 years later at American Thinker here…
