Courtesy New Haven Museum
In 1972, anti-war liberal George McGovern was going up against Richard Nixon in the presidential election. Then, as now, the city’s labor unions sent out the flyers and knocked on the doors, especially members of the United Auto Workers, but it wasn’t enough. Nixon carried Connecticut, and every other state except Massachusetts. Welcome to This Day In At Least I Voted For McGovern History as your host Allan Appel and Jason Bischoff-Wurstle of the New Haven Museum travel back in time.
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