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The 1968 presidential campaign of Eugene McCarthy was launched by United States Senator Eugene McCarthy of Minnesota in the latter part of 1967 to vie for the 1968 Democratic Party nomination for president of the United States.
McCarthy in 1968. McCarthy opposed Watergate-era campaign finance laws, becoming a plaintiff in the landmark case Buckley v. Valeo, 424 U.S. 1 (1976), in which the U.S. Supreme Court held that certain provisions of federal campaign finance laws were unconstitutional.
Poor People’s Campaign. Eugene McCarthy (born March 29, 1916, Watkins, Minnesota, U.S.—died December 10, 2005, Washington, D.C.) was a U.S. senator, whose entry into the 1968 race for the Democratic presidential nomination ultimately led President Lyndon B. Johnson to drop his bid for reelection.
Dec 11, 2005 · WASHINGTON — Former U.S. Sen. Eugene J. McCarthy, D-Minn., 89, whose insurgent campaign toppled a sitting president in 1968 and forced the Democratic Party to take seriously his message...
Mar 16, 2018 · The McCarthy campaign of 1968 serves as an important reminder that with the confluence of the right issue and candidate democracy can flourish as intended, when voters mobilize to genuinely...
It often seemed that Eugene McCarthy didn't want to win the White House very badly. But the relatively unknown Midwestern senator with the aloof campaign style managed to capsize the career of his party's incumbent president, Lyndon Johnson.
Eugene McCarthy’s campaign for president in 1968 appealed to youth voters and the peace movement by promising to bring a swift end to the Vietnam War. His strong showing in early primaries demonstrated President Johnson’s weakness, and inspired Robert F. Kennedy to enter the race.
