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Governors mount stop McGovern at national conference
Two Democratic governors lead a push to block George S. McGovern from the 1972 nomination as the National Governors Conference opens. Carter of Georgia and Ford of Kentucky organize a holding action limited to southern Democrats, amid divisions over platform planks and Muskie endorsements.
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Houston
UPI
George S. McGovern
McGovern
Hubert H. Humphrey
Jimmy Carter
Georgia
Wendell Ford
Kentucky
South
Ford
Edmund S. Muskie
Muskie
Maine
Carter
John C. West
South Carolina