Dedication of This Issue to the Late U.S. Senator, Ambassador, Democratic Candidate for President of the United States, and Tireless Worker for Peace and Against War and Poverty, The Hon. George S. McGovern

In 1972, George McGovern challenged Richard M. Nixon for the presidency of the United States, and it went down as one of the greatest defeats in American presidential history. Years later, in response to a question whether he was embarrassed to have lost so badly, he said that everything had to be put into perspective. Many times, he said, he had met people who remarked, “I voted for Nixon. But if I had known then what I know now, I would have voted for you.” I doubt, he remarked, that Nixon ever met anyone who said, “I voted for McGovern, but if I had known then what I know now, I would have voted for you.” George McGovern died on October 21, 2012, at the age of 90. Somewhat more than two years previously, on April 7, 2010, the Norwegian Nobel Institute acknowledged receipt of a nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize for Senator McGovern that Professor Robert P. Watson of Lynn University and I prepared. United States Representative Dennis Moore, then representing the Third Congressional District of Kansas, strongly endorsed, and submitted, the nomination. Unfortunately, the timing was not good, because an American, President Barack Obama, had received the prize the previous year; the prize has only rarely been awarded to recipients of the same country in two consecutive years. In his honor, we believe it appropriate to reproduce here our nomination of Senator McGovern, and the tribute that it includes.