Preparing a story for The Evening News, we played some of the [new Nixon] tapes for Senator George McGovern. He was in Washington to celebrate his 85th birthday this weekend in a reunion with friends and former staff members.

"I do think it's kind of sad that the president of the United States in the moment of his greatest triumph was so angry, so peevish about the whole situation," he said. "I have no malice towards him. I didn't then, and I don't today."

[Click on the SOURCE link to watch McGovern's interview.]