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Dec 11, 2005 · Eugene J. McCarthy, the sardonic Senate dove who stunned the nation by upending President Lyndon B. Johnson's re-election drive amid the Vietnam War turmoil of 1968, died early yesterday. He...
Dec 12, 2005 · December 12, 200512:00 AM ET. By. Ken Rudin. The antiwar senator and 1968 presidential candidate died Saturday morning at the age of 89. Four years before he took on LBJ, McCarthy was seriously...
Dec 20, 2023 · One of the most distinguished politicians in Minnesota history, Eugene McCarthy was born in Watkins, Minnesota, in 1916. After a brief stint as a professor, McCarthy turned to politics and represented Minnesota in the House and the Senate from 1949 to 1971, where he gained a reputation as an intellectual.
Dec 10, 2005 · Former Minnesota Sen. Eugene J. McCarthy, whose insurgent campaign toppled a sitting president in 1968 and forced the Democratic Party to take seriously his message against the Vietnam War,...
Dec 10, 2005 · Former Democratic Sen. Eugene McCarthy, one of Minnesota's and the country's most influential political figures of the last century, has died. He was 89. McCarthy's opposition to the Vietnam War became his platform for an unsuccessful 1968 bid to win his party's presidential nomination.
Jan 18, 2006 · For many Eugene McCarthy’s run for president marked a bright spot in a tragic year. But McCarthy’s run for the presidency stopped in Chicago during the infamous 1968 Democratic convention...
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. The focus of his campaign was his support for a swift end to the Vietnam War through a withdrawal of American forces.
