If President Obama wanted to shake things up, his opponent, Mitt Romney, was trying to keep things calm12:19AM EDT October 23. 2012 - BOCA RATON, Fla. -- This time, President Obama wanted a fight. Mitt Romney was determined not to give him one.
12:19AM EDT October 23. 2012 - BOCA RATON, Fla. -- This time, President Obama wanted a fight. Mitt Romney was determined not to give him one.
At the third and final presidential debate — in battleground Florida, and focused on foreign policy — Obama accused his Republican rival of espousing "wrong" and dangerous policies that would risk new wars, and he ridiculed his worldview and his demands for a bigger Navy as outdated.
"We have fewer ships than we did in 1916. Well, Governor, we also have fewer horses and bayonets," Obama said to laughter, adding: "This is not a game of Battleship.
McGovern, a strong man who overcame defeat
I had traveled to Washington to cover the Senate Watergate hearings, which of course centered on the first lady's husband, and I had unexpectedly been invited to lunch by the other person at my table, which was just a few feet from where Mrs. Nixon and Mrs. Eisenhower were eating.
Bob Greene
"What did you think?" George McGovern asked me. He drank a cup of coffee and waited for his omelet to arrive. "When you were riding the planes and looking at the crowds every day, did you think we'd lost it?"
Only one year before, he had been traveling the country campaigning nonstop, the Democratic candidate for president. He had hoped to be living in the White House. Now, in that summer of '73, having suffered a landslide defeat at the hands of Richard Nixon, he was a U.S. senator who had just come out of a routine and dreary agriculture subcommittee meeting which had lasted all morning and would resume after the lunch break.
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