Playboy Interview: George Mcgovern

August, 1971

A blustery Bronx dawn greeted George McGovern one day last March. For the sanitation men he was to meet--Latin, Slavic, black, Mediterranean--the dreary morning began as usual: with the cluster in the cold before their trucks, the ritual daily "shape-up." To the accompaniment of reporters, tape recorders, audio cables and film crews, the Senator approached them cautiously, with a hand advanced and a small smile. His manner was polite, almost timid, with none of the backslapping bonhomi...

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