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Given the developments in the Democratic race over the past week, this George McGovern quote from when he endorsed Hillary Clinton in Iowa in October takes on a whole new meaning:
"I hope to live long enough to see a black president in the White House," McGovern said in reference to Clinton's Democratic rival, Sen. Barack Obama. "But we have an old rule and courtesy in the United States: 'ladies first.'"
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