...is not uncommon for people to mistake former Senator Joe McCarthy for former Senator Eugene McCarthy, despite the fact that they represented approximately opposite points of view. Eugene McCarthy was the super liberal Democrat from Minnesota who was succeeded...
...history now, even for those of us who were there 40 years ago. But when the ballots were counted on March 12, 1968, Sen. Eugene McCarthy of Minnesota had won 42 percent of the vote, compared to 49 percent for President Lyndon Johnson. In fact, when Republican...
...we might learn something from looking at how Senator Robert F. Kennedy won the state in 1968 against both Minnesota Senator Eugene McCarthy and Vice-President Hubert Humphrey (who was not on the ballot but had a stand-in candidate). The following are excerpts...
...weakness to win a broad mandate to govern? Or will he allow himself to be typed as a black Adlai Stevenson or Eugene McCarthy, articulate but snooty, and out of touch with ordinary folk? The Denver convention offers him the chance to break out, show himself...
...debris at the Chicago police, the purer-than-thou sanctimony that tolerated no distinction between Lyndon Johnson and Eugene McCarthy, and the exhilaration of voting in the streets instead of in election booths combined to ensure liberal defeats. Haydens orchestrated...
...years ago, Robert F. Kennedy was murdered on the very night he defeated his fellow anti-war insurgent Eugene McCarthy in the California Democratic presidential primary. This week the news media are full of remembrances of RFK, rehearsing how his assassination,...
...Tuesday's proceedings at the Democratic National Convention in Denver, a photograph of former Minnesota Sen. Eugene McCarthy was shown during a roll call of the honored dead -- departed stalwarts of the Democratic persuasion who have gone to their rewards...
...administrations who had resigned over the escalation of the war in Vietnam. He would later become a speechwriter for Sens. Eugene McCarthy and Bobby Kennedy during their 1968 presidential campaigns. Jack Newfield, one of the leading journalists of the Village...
...Indiana primaries are numerous now. In ’68, two U.S. senators — one from New York, Robert Kennedy, and one from the Midwest, Eugene McCarthy (of Minnesota) — were embroiled in a close race for the Democratic presidential nomination. A war was raging. Now,...
...in the New Hampshire primary and decided to exit the race, some of his advisers pointed to an unlikely reason for challenger Eugene McCarthy's success: Paul Newman. It wasn't too far off the mark, as Newman proved to be a tireless campaigner for McCarthy,...