WASHINGTON -- Former Minnesota Sen. Eugene J. McCarthy, whose insurgent campaign toppled a sitting president in 1968 and forced the Democratic Party to take seriously his message against the Vietnam ...
In 1968, in the dark chill of a New Hampshire winter, a little-known poet from Minnesota shocked the political establishment and helped drive a United States president from office. The poet was Eugene ...
Anti-Vietnam War candidate Sen. Eugene McCarthy of Minnesota won Wisconsin's April 2 Democratic primary, following his second-place finish in New Hampshire the previous month. McCarthy's win in ...
On this day in 1968, Minnesota Sen. Eugene McCarthy -- with just a week to go before the election -- finally endorses his one-time rival, Vice... Oct. 29, 1968: With just a week to go before the ...
WASHINGTON - Eugene McCarthy, the Minnesota senator who upended President Lyndon B. Johnson's re-election effort amid the Vietnam War tumult of 1968, was remembered at a service Saturday as a man of ...
Former U.S. Sen. Eugene McCarthy, D-Minn., whose surprisingly strong showing in the 1968 New Hampshire presidential primary dramatized deepening public opposition to the Vietnam War and effectively ...
I love you so. ... Gone? Who will swear you wouldn't have done good to the country, that fulfillment wouldn't have done good to you. -- Robert Lowell "For Eugene McCarthy" (July 1968) ...
WASHINGTON — Former Minnesota Sen. Eugene J. McCarthy, whose insurgent campaign toppled a sitting president in 1968 and forced the Democratic Party to take seriously his message against the Vietnam ...
WASHINGTON Former Minnesota Sen. Eugene J. McCarthy, whose insurgent campaign toppled a sitting president in 1968 and forced the Democratic Party to take seriously his message against the Vietnam War, ...