SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — Former Democratic presidential candidate George McGovern has been hospitalized for fatigue in South Dakota, a hospital spokeswoman said Tuesday.
Jullie Ward, a spokeswoman for Avera McKennan Hospital in Sioux Falls, said the 89-year-old former senator from South Dakota was admitted to the Sioux Falls hospital for fatigue after completing a lecture tour. She said doctors expect him to make a full recovery and be released in a couple of days.
Ward said the family has asked for privacy while McGovern recovers and rests.
McGovern, a South Dakota congressman from 1957 to 1961 and U.S. senator from 1963 to 1981, ran for president against incumbent Richard Nixon in 1972 and lost in a historic landslide.
McGovern had moved to St. Augustine, Fla., in 2008 after the death of his wife, Eleanor. His latest book, “What It Means To Be a Democrat,” is scheduled to be released Nov. 10. He was scheduled to be in his hometown of Mitchell, S.D., four days after its release for the 2011 McGovern Conference.
