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Frank Mankiewicz Dies at 90; Ran George McGovern’s 1972 Antiwar Presidential Campaign

HeadlineOct 24, 2014

Frank Mankiewicz, who served as press secretary for Sen. Robert Kennedy and directed the 1972 presidential campaign of antiwar candidate Sen. George McGovern, has died at the age of 90. McGovern ran on an anti-Vietnam War platform against Richard Nixon in 1972. Mankiewicz reflected on McGovern’s candidacy in the documentary, “One Bright and Shining Moment: The Forgotten Summer of George McGovern.”

Frank Mankiewicz: “All this talk about him as a softy, it was just preposterous. I mean, the man is an authentic American hero. … We just lost an election. None of us went to jail. Most of the other guys went to jail.”

Mankiewicz also served as president of National Public Radio for six years. He died Thursday of heart failure in Washington, D.C.

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