George McGovern Receiving Hospice Care

[Jackilope]

30. You are welcome.

Sen. McGovern was at DWU in Mitchell, SD on election day in 1972. I wasn't old enough to vote, but was invited to hear him speak at DWU by a fellow 6th grade classmate. I got to shake his hand that day -- and wanted so much for him to be our President.

A month or so ago, did get to shake his hand at a 90th birthday celebration in Sioux Falls. Last spring he spoke at McGovern Days in Sioux Falls. You could feel the love and admiration from everyone in the room that night. One of the closing comments he shared with us was the day after the election. Eleanor and he were on a runway and his running mate hugged them and said, "We may have lost the election, but we did not lose our souls."

So incredibly grateful for his time here .... and so incredibly sad to lose him.