Since his loss in the 1972 United States presidential election, there have been numerous allusions to George McGovern in American popular culture. Allusions In 2006, the film One Bright Shining Moment – The Forgotten Summer of George McGovern was released in the United States. Directed by Stephen Vittoria and narrated by Amy Goodman, the documentary chronicles the life and times of George McGovern, focusing on his 1972 bid for the presidency. The film features McGovern, Gloria Steinem, Gore Vidal, Warren Beatty, Howard Zinn and Dick Gregory. McGovern is also prominently featured in the documentary films The U.S. vs. John Lennon (2006), Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson (2007), and Rush to War: Between Iraq and a Hard Place (2004), among other documentaries. The films Nixon (1995), Dick (1999), All the President's Men (1976), Some Kind of Hero (1982), and The Seventies (2000 TV miniseries) reference McGovern and his 1972 presidential campaign. In director Oliver Stone's Nixon, McGovern is repeatedly cited, including President Nixon (played by Anthony Hopkins) responding to southern conservatives and a right wing special interest group who threaten Nixon by taking away his campaign funds for the 1972 presidential campaign due to Nixon's policies on Cuba, the Environmental Protection Agency and détente with Communists. Nixon rebuts this by saying that if they don't like it then they can give their money to George Wallace. "Is that what you want John... to hand this country over to some pansy poet Socialist like George McGovern?" Nixon exclaims. The film also includes television footage of McGovern campaigning and his defeat by Nixon. In producer Robert Redford's All the President's Men, McGovern is described as "self-destructing" (along with Ed Muskie and Hubert Humphrey), and as offering the vice presidential spot to "everybody" following the Thomas Eagleton controversy. The Nixon campaign's covert activities against the presidential campaigns of Muskie and Humphrey are attributed to Nixon's desire to run against McGovern. The film is seasoned with television and newspaper coverage of McGovern's nomination and his handling of the Eagleton affair. Both Nixon and All the President's Men make reference to an attempt by Nixon's campaign to plant McGovern literature on presidential candidate George Wallace's attempted assassin. In The Seventies, one of the lead characters, as a staff member of the Committee to Re-elect the President (CREEP), executes its "dirty tricks" by sabotaging a McGovern press conference and infiltrating the McGovern-Shriver