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GV McGovern addressing crowd at rally (SOUND ON FILM)
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SENATOR McGOVERN: "So we have a lot to celebrate tonight, and two weeks from tonight I want you to know we are planning a great celebration in the state of California."



You are not only invited to that party on June 6th, but you're invited to the one in Miami Beach in July.



And perhaps the biggest celebration of all will be the one in November when we mark the retirement of Richard Nixon."




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Background: A confident Senator George McGovern appeared before a crowd of Cheering supporters in portland, Oregon on tuesday night (23 May) after the announcement that he'd won landslide victories in both the Oregon and Rhode Island Democratic Primaries.

In his victory speech, he talked cheerfully of the future:
(The California primary to which Senator McGovern referred is the most important of the primaries still to be contested. A win for the Senator there would make him the clear favourite to win the Democratic presidential nomination at Miami Beach in mid-July)
In the Oregon primary, Senator McGovern took more than fifty per cent of the vote. Oregon is the state which in 1960 gave a strong vote of support to John F. kennedy -- and in 1968 gave a primary victory to Eugene McCarthy.

In Rhode Island - where pre-election polls predicted only a narrow win for McGovern - he won 41 per cent of the vote compared with Senator Edmund Muskie's 21 per cent and Senator Hubert Humphrey's 20 per cent.