CLEAN GENE.(The Talk of the Town)(Eugene J. McCarthy)

Publication: The New Yorker

Publication Date: 19-JAN-04

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Former Senator Eugene J. McCarthy, the paladin of the antiwar movement in the nineteen-sixties, is not encouraged by the current crop of Democratic candidates for President. Asked about them recently, in an informal conversation at his apartment at the Georgetown Retirement Residence, in Washington, D.C., he recalled that he once published an article listing the categories of people who should not be considered for the Presidency. Governors were at the top of the list. "We used to say in the Senate that if you elect a governor to the Senate it takes them six months to get over it, and if you elect them President they don't have enough time," he said. "Governors are the worst, because...

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