The McGovern Report

Joel Allen
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The McGovern Report

This podcast is the voice of the McGovern Center for Leadership and Public Service at Dakota Wesleyan University. The McGovern Center is the living legacy of Sen. George and Eleanor McGovern, two of Dakota Wesleyan’s most prominent alumni. The McGovern Center builds on George and Eleanor’s lifelong commitment to humanitarian outreach and civic engagement working in the areas of leadership development, social justice, community-based research and learning and public service.

  1. 8 MARS

    2:14 An Interview with Peter Stavrianos: A Witness to Kindness

    Mark Lempke here interviews Peter Stavrianos - a long-time friend of the McGovern family. Peter drove McGovern around as he campaigned for his seat in the US Senate. The overarching theme of this episode is the tremendous kindness and humility with which Sen. McGovern treated everyone no matter what their political opinion.

    50 min

  2. 10/10/2023

    2:13 A Friendship Forged by Time: An Interview with Sen. Gary Hart

    Welcome back to another episode of "The McGovern Report." Today, we're delving into the and enduring relationship between two iconic American senators: George McGovern and Gary Hart. In 1972, Gary Hart took on a pivotal role as the national campaign director for George McGovern's historic presidential bid. Their shared vision for progressive change in America united them as they embarked on a political journey that would shape the nation's history. But the story doesn't end there. Hart and McGovern went on to serve together in the U.S. Senate, fighting for their respective causes and ideals side by side. What sets this political partnership apart is the twist that occurred in 1984 when Gary Hart and George McGovern found themselves in an unexpected position – as competitors in the race for the Democratic Party's presidential nomination. It was a moment that could have strained even the closest friendships, yet these two men remained not just allies but good friends throughout it all. So, join us as we explore the fascinating journey of Senator Gary Hart and Senator George McGovern within the context of "The McGovern Report" – a podcast that takes you deep into the heart of American politics, where friendships are forged, tested, and endure.

    45 min

  3. 14/08/2023

    MR 2:12 A Dynamic Friendship: An Interview with Senator Thomas Daschle

    We embark here on a journey through history exploring the unique bond that united two excpetional people and ignited a passion for change. Join us as we uncover the dynamic friendship between Senator George McGovern and our special guest, former Senate Majority Leader, Tom Daschle. In this episode, we recognize the enduring friendship and shared vision that paved the way for monumental shifts in American politics. Sen. Daschle, a true statesman in his own right, not only followed in the footsteps of his mentor, Sen. McGovern, but together they shaped policy, championed social justice, and stood unwavering in their commitment to a better world. So, whether you're a political aficionado, a history buff, or simply eager to witness the power of friendship in action, this episode beautifully conveys stories that chronicle a remarkable and dynamic friendship. We proudly present, "The McGovern Report" featuring the esteemed Senator and former Senate Majority leader Thomas Daschle.

    37 min

  4. 17/07/2023

    MR 2:11 Interview with Ann McGovern, Jim Rowen and Mark Lempke

    Sen. George McGovern was born on July 19, 1922. To celebrate his 101st birthday, and to extend and enliven his legacy, I offer this conversation. Ann McGovern, the eldest daughter of George and Eleanor, and her brother-in-law Jim Rowen, joined us to get a glimpse of both George and Eleanor on a more personal and intimate level. Historian Mark Lempke led our conversation. Thanks to all for your participation!

    58 min

  5. 17/01/2023

    MR 2:10 George McGovern's Anti-Hunger Work: A conversation with Marshall Matz, Alan Stone and Catherine Bertini

    The bios for Marshall Matz, Alan Stone and Catherine Bertini Marshall has devoted his career, for the most part, to domestic and global food security. Starting as Counsel to the Senate Committee on Agriculture he crafted all the nutrition legislation championed by Senators George McGovern (D-SD) and Bob Dole (R-KS). He was also counsel to the Senate Select Committee on Nutrition when it published Dietary Goals for the United States, which has been memorialized as the USDA-HHS Dietary Guidelines and updated every five years. This focus on food security has led to a devotion to sound science, agriculture research, and biotechnology. He now works with the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa helping them to grow themselves out of poverty. Other areas of interest have been Native American policy and rural development including forestry. He represents South Dakota State University on the New Beginnings Program for Tribal Students and the Intermountain Forest Association. Alan Stone Began to work on anti-hunger and anti-poverty issues while in law school. Worked as a VISTA attorney and a Reginald Heber Smith Poverty Law Fellow before joining The Senate Nutrition Committee as Counsel and remaining as Staff Director. Alan wrote all the child nutrition legislation during the 1970’s, when the federal commitment to hunger programs grew from $1 billion to $10 billion annually. He capped his 20 year career in D.C. at the Clinton White House as one of a handful of senior speechwriters, a role he also performed in the '92 campaign in Little Rock. He then served consecutively as Vice President of Columbia University and Harvard University, and has recently retired in Cambridge, MA. He is a graduate of Miami University in Oxford, Ohio and George Washington University Law School in D.C. He is a Chicagoan by birth. Catherine Bertini An accomplished leader in international organization reform, Catherine Bertini has a distinguished career improving the efficiency and operations of organizations serving poor and hungry people in the United States and around the world. She was named the 2003 World Food Prize Laureate for her transformational leadership at the World Food Programme (WFP), which she led for ten years, and for the positive impact she had on the lives of women. While in the US government, she expanded the electronic benefit transfer options for food stamp beneficiaries, created the food package for breast feeding mothers, presented the first effort to picture healthy diets, and expanded education and training opportunities for poor women. Later, she co-chaired a successful effort to impact American policy supporting poor farmers in the developing world. The U.S. program is known as “Feed the Future”. As a United Nations Under Secretary General, she initiated efforts to reform the global system for security of staff and for the recognition of all staff marriages. She interacted with all UN agencies and their leadership through a variety of UN bodies in humanitarian, development, nutrition, security and management roles, and led UN humanitarian missions around the world. She was appointed to senior positions by three UN secretaries general and five US presidents and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

    1 h 38 min

  6. 16/11/2022

    MR 2:9 An Interview with Judy Harrington in "George McGovern: an Oral History"

    I’m here today to interview Judy Harrington. This is a part of a larger project called, “George McGovern: an Oral History.” The goal of this project is to document the personal memories of those who worked closely with Sen. McGovern and to preserve those memories for posterity. My hope is that some day, historian may draw on these episodes as a primary source in crafting the history of that period and particularly the legacy and import of the life of this truly great American. Of particular interest here is the pertinent question for our time: How did Sen. McGovern become so respected, so impactful, so influential as a moral hero. As I have come to know those persons who worked so hard in that ill-fated election of 1972, what strikes me is their reverence for this man. They often say, “Don’t get me wrong. He wasn’t perfect and he was totally human. But he was a truly decent and kind man. He respected the dignity of the individual and cared deeply that his life poured a sweetening flavor into the pot of common good. At the McGovern Centennial Event on Sept. 22, Gov. Harvey Wollman, just a few days before his recent passing, said in the words of the old hymn, “What better legacy could you use to describe George McGovern? He wanted to throw out the lifeline to the hungry, the depressed, the people than needed healthcare, people that were prejudiced, soldiers that were dying unnecessarily. . . . If you remember anything of what I said today, know that I believed in George McGovern, the man that tried with his life to throw out the lifeline to millions. That is the highest tribute I could say to that man.” If you would like to see Gov. Wollman's commemorative talk about Sen. McGovern. here's the link.  George McGovern was something like the biblical Abraham - he was a “Father of many.” He was a father-figure to many who saw him as a moral hero, an exemplar of prairie goodness, a beacon of the best of humanity. He exemplified what “the better angels of our nature” looks like. Even ten years since his passing, he is remembered so fondly by so many. But more than that, his influence carries on in so many who still labor to build a world a peace where hunger is no more. So, this podcast intends to capture the memories of the graying “McGovern Army” but more than that, to ponder with them the depth and scope of the morally salubrious influence of Sen. McGovern and his lovely wife Eleanor. In today’s episode, I interview Judy Harrington. Judy was with George from 1971. She worked for his campaign and then was the office manager of the Senate office in Sioux Falls SD. Judy has spoken about the senator many times over many years. She spoke recently at the McGovern Centennial event on the campus of DWU. She worked more closely with him over a very long period of time (from his re-election in 1973 to 1980). It is my privilege to interview here Judy Harrington. I hope you listen through to the end. Happy Veteran’s Day, George McGovern!

    51 min

  7. 14/10/2022

    McGovern Center Update / Uganda Initiative w/Andrea and Kristy / David Aylward on the significance of George McGovern

    This episode is the first in a long while - about 1/2 a year. So there's a lot of catching up to do. 1) An update on the McGovern Center 2) An interview with Andrea Hult (a student at DWU - Non-Profit Admin major) and Kristy Zink (Academic Success and Career Services Coordinator) about why they love going to Uganda with AsOne Africa. 3) A delightful interview with David Aylward (see bio below) who campaigned for the senator in New Hampshire and has been deeply impacted by Sen. McGovern. David K. Aylward David has devoted his career in recent years to providing strategy and leadership to organizations and initiatives that improve population health and wellbeing for disadvantaged people. He has a 45-year history of using his skills and experience in innovation, startups, and coalition building to cause or exploit policy change and disruptive innovation. He is an expert on the intersection of US and global health with social innovation, public policy, communications and IT, finance, and related fields, particularly in understanding and designing the new complex coalitions and systems required for systemic transformation. He is an Assistant Clinical Professor in the Department of Family Medicine at the School of Medicine of the University of Colorado and a Senior Advisor the Farley Health Policy Center of the School of Medicine (https://medschool.cuanschutz.edu/farleyhealthpolicycenter). He is focused on the design of systems to advance challenged communities by addressing systemic inequities and health disparities. The designs use a transformational, family-centered combination of next generation primary care fully integrated with necessary social services, intended to help people thrive while lowering the overall cost of health. Delivery is built on collaboration between community leaders, safety net clinical providers, and social service organizations and agencies, with a financial design emphasizing healthy outcomes, not sick care. Prior to this work David led the design and startup of a national program to train Medical Assistants in person-centered primary care as the first Executive Director of the National Institute for Medical Assistant Advancement (www.nimaa.org) founded by Community Health Center Inc. of Connecticut (www.chc1.com) and Salud Family Health Centers of Colorado (https://www.saludclinic.org/). He also served as a Senior Advisor to CHC on matters related to health system transformation. Prior to that he was a Senior Advisor to global charity Ashoka’s Health for All initiative where he helped design and lead global initiatives to increase the wellness/vitality of disadvantaged populations (not just provide illness care) in low-income countries. In addition to cutting edge “doorstep” primary health care using the latest digital solutions, these person-centered and community-based approaches included a major focus on full nourishment, sanitation, mental health, empowering people on these matters, and other key contributors to human well-being and capacity. www.ashoka.org. Until June 2016 he was the Executive Strategist of the iThrive Initiative (www.ithrivegames.org) in its design and start up. Its mission is to accelerate the development of digital games to strengthen the emotional capacity and skills of adolescents, and thus improve their ability to succeed in life and reduce later mental health disorders. He was the first Executive Director of the mHealth Alliance at the United Nations Foundation focused on improving global health systems in low resource areas with mobile ICT. Prior to launching the mHealth Alliance, he was Chief Strategist of the national non-profit 100 organization COMCARE Emergency Response Alliance, which he founded in 1998. At COMCARE, David helped develop a new vision and interoperable architecture for US emergency response of all kinds, including medical, based on modern IT, broadband, and wireless. As Chief Counsel and Staff Dir

    57 min

  8. 20/07/2022

    Sen. George McGovern's 100th birthday: A commemorative conversation with Tom Knock and Mark Lempke

    Senator George McGovern would have turned 100 on July 19, 2022. It has been almost exactly 50 years since he received the nomination of the Democratic Party to run for president. It has almost been 10 years since his passing in October of 2012. This podcast is a commemorative conversation between three people who know and deeply appreciate the contributions made by the Senator.  Professor Thomas Knock is a chair of the history department at Southern Methodist University in Dallas Texas. He is also the Altshuler Distinguished Teaching Professor History and author of "The Rise of the Prairie Statesman: The Life and Times of George McGovern." Mark Lempke is that author of "My Brother's Keeper: George McGovern and Progressive Christianity" and has completed a Ph.D. in history at State University of New York at Buffalo and taught history in Singapore at the Singapore Institute of Management. He and his wife Heather now live in Rochester New York. If you are interested in attending or simply want to learn more about our McGovern Centennial Celebration event on Sept. 22, you can go to McGovern Centennial Celebration on Sept. 22. If you wish to read the commemorative piece I recently wrote about Sen. McGovern, you can click at this link: Remembering George. If you wish to contact me with question or comment, email me at joallen@dwu.edu.

    1 h 31 min
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This podcast is the voice of the McGovern Center for Leadership and Public Service at Dakota Wesleyan University. The McGovern Center is the living legacy of Sen. George and Eleanor McGovern, two of Dakota Wesleyan’s most prominent alumni. The McGovern Center builds on George and Eleanor’s lifelong commitment to humanitarian outreach and civic engagement working in the areas of leadership development, social justice, community-based research and learning and public service.

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    Joel Allen
  • Années d’activité
    2020 - 2024
  • Épisodes
    30
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    © Joel Allen
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