The poet was Eugene McCarthy, who happened to reside in the U.S, Senate. The president was Lyndon B. Johnson. As 1968 dawned, Johnson seemed, like most incumbents, to be in a strong position for ...
Mary Beth McCarthy Yarrow is the niece of Eugene McCarthy, the former U.S. Senator and Democratic presidential candidate. Eugene, her father’s brother, was a prominent political figure ...
Eugene McCarthy told a roaring Fenway Park audience Thursday night that the nation has a chance this year to become “an America of confidence, an America which trusts its own judgment.” ...
He didn't win the White House. He didn't even win his own party's nomination. But in 1968 Eugene McCarthy revealed major divisions among Democrats, changing the political landscape in a way few ...
In November 1967, Senator Eugene McCarthy of Minnesota announced that he would seek the Democratic nomination, and that ending the Vietnam War was his central issue. McCarthy mobilized hundreds of ...
Mary Beth is the niece of former Democratic presidential candidate Eugene McCarthy, her father’s brother. Eugene McCarthy was elected to the Senate in 1958 and served until November 1967 ...
Johnson declined to run for office again. The anti-war Democratic candidate, Eugene McCarthy, lost his party’s nomination and Richard Nixon became President No. 37, laying bare a fractured ...