Newly-released files shows that the FBI shared with former Sen. George McGovern (D-SD) “that in 1960, during a thorough background search after he’d been nominated to serve in John F. Kennedy’s administration, FBI investigators verified an allegation that McGovern had fathered a child,” the Sioux Falls Argus Leader reports.

McGovern, according to the FBI’s account of the meeting, “made no comment nor asked any questions about the statement that the allegation concerning the illegitimate child had been verified during the special inquiry investigation.”

Washington Post: “An academic with a forthcoming biography of 1972 Democratic presidential candidate and former senator George McGovern has confirmed that the South Dakotan fathered a child before he was married.”