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Title: John Lennon and George McGovern : Another Side of the 1972 Campaign
Post by: peregrine9 on October 23, 2012, 07:47:48 AM

The Nation
10/21/2012
John Lennon and George McGovern: Another Side of the 1972 Campaign

George McGovern’s 1972 campaign against Nixon changed many lives, including John Lennons’s. Lennon had moved to New York City in 1971, and it was his support for McGovern—who died October 21 at age 90—that led the Nixon administration to try to deport the ex-Beatle.

http://www.thenation.com/blog/170715/john-lennon-and-george-mcgovern-another-side-1972-campaign (http://www.thenation.com/blog/170715/john-lennon-and-george-mcgovern-another-side-1972-campaign)