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MEAN TO GENE.(Eugene McCarthy)

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From 1968, a day in the life of the candidate Eugene McCarthy

Eugene McCarthy, the dragon-slayer of American politics, belonged to a famous cohort of Minnesota Democrats who came together in the years after the Second World War and produced a governor, Orville Freeman, and two Vice-Presidents, Hubert Humphrey and Walter Mondale. He began his political career, in 1948, as a liberal anti-Communist congressman from Minnesota's Fourth District, which includes St. Paul. In 1958, after five terms in the House, he was elected to the Senate. Blessed with the patronage of the majority leader, Lyndon Johnson, he was soon identified, along with colleagues like Edmund Muskie, ...

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