In a speech here Monday night George McGovern, the 1972 Democratic nominee for president, laid out a seven-point plan for how he’d reform the country. Each and every item was met with thunderous cheers as if the 83-year-old former senator from South Dakota were a current political contender.
Near the end of his UW-Madison lecture, “The Iraq War: Lessons From the Past,” McGovern called for the United States to get out of Iraq and for President Bush and his advisers to admit that Iraq was never a threat to the U.S.