SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) – The former South Dakota senator and three-time presidential candidate, George McGovern has died. He passed away Sunday morning in Sioux Falls, S.D. at age 90. A family spokesman says funeral plans will be announced soon for the former senator. The three-time Democratic presidential candidate was a decorated World War II bomber pilot who pledged to end the Vietnam War and cut defense spending. He lost to President Richard Nixon in a landslide in 1972.
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