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Exit Gene McCarthy.(on the right)(Eugene McCarthy)(Obituary)
NEW YORK, DECEMBER 13
THE death of Eugene McCarthy marks the end of a cycle and almost certainly the beginning of a new cycle with similar hallmarks. The day McCarthy died, Virginia's popular Democratic governor, Mark Warner, signaled his candidacy for the presidency in 2008, a claim for the support of the Democratic center.
And a group that calls itself "World Can't Wait" (www.worldcantwait.org) announced a campaign to save the United States from George Bush.
Sen. Eugene McCarthy had aspired to be president but, after a while, in a formalistic way. He did run for president in 1968, and by scoring 42 percent in the New Hampshire Democratic primary, drove incumbent President Lyndon Johnson out of the race, and out of town. But he did not himself win the nomination, let alone the presidency.
McCarthy's career was dotted by political disappointments. He had hoped, in 1960, to be named if not presidential candidate, then vice presidential. He delivered the most eloquent nominating address in postwar history, asking the convention to name yet again Adlai Stevenson. This was viewed as an oblique move against Sen. John F. Kennedy.
The Kennedy forces looked on, unamused. They weren't afraid of McCarthy, whose oratorical cadenza was dazzling, but was not seriously challenging to the prescribed outcome of the Los Angeles convention, which was Kennedy-bound. But there was some worry that McCarthy's oratory might have the effect of suggesting that the nomination of Kennedy had nothing whatever to do with democratic idealism, quickly confirmed by the choice of LBJ as running mate.
Eight years later JFK was dead and the Vietnam War was raging. Eugene McCarthy went up to New Hampshire to see what he could do to egg history on. He did a great deal, precipitating the withdrawal of President Johnson. But that's as tar as it went. The restless, demanding tone of dissatisfaction expressed today by the radical Left with such candidacies as Mark Wamer's was prefigured in the Village Voice in 1968. There, Jack ...
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...The snows of New Hampshire are where campaigns...from 62 percent of New Hampshire Democrats, compared...challenger, Sen. Eugene McCarthy. When ballots were...pitted against famous New Hampshire meltdowns. George...
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...December 10th, aged 89 WHEN Eugene McCarthy was making his first and most...enough), would have to be Eugene McCarthy. His campaign was odd in the...came so close to Johnson in the New Hampshire primary that the president realised...
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