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	Eugene McCarthy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In 1968, McCarthy ran against incumbent President Lyndon Johnson in the New Hampshire Democratic primary, with the intention of influencing the federal government—then controlled by Democrats—to curtail its involvement in the Vietnam War.
		McCarthy, along with other candidates excluded from the 1992 Democratic debates (including actor Tom Laughlin, two-time New Alliance Party Presidential candidate Lenora Fulani, former Irvine, California mayor Larry Agran, and others) staged protests and unsuccessfully took legal action in an attempt to be included in the debates.
		McCarthy died at the age of 89 on December 10, 2005 at Georgetown Retirement Residence in Washington, DC of complications from Parkinson's disease.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Eugene_McCarthy (1403 words)

	Tribute to Eugene McCarthy
		George McGovern, McCarthy's chief competitor for the hearts and minds of the anti-war movement, once remarked to me that every library is an education -- in itself and about its owner -- and Gene's small bookcase, in a corner of his modest assisted-living apartment, was a fine example.
		McCarthy's mean-spirited biographer, Dominic Sandbrook (Eugene McCarthy and the Rise and Fall of Postwar American Liberalism), reports, without irony, that the sainted Kennedy once complained that McCarthy just "wasn't a very nice man." Coming from the former minority counsel to Sen. Joseph McCarthy's witch hunt, it almost makes me wish for stronger libel laws.
		Though he functioned well enough within party politics, McCarthy was not at heart an organization man. He nevertheless tried to depersonalize his rebellion, insisting that he ran for president largely to defend the Senate as an institution and the constitutional perogatives he believed had been abused by Johnson.
	www.commondreams.org /cgi-bin/print.cgi?file=/views06/0110-31.htm (1355 words)

	American Experience \| RFK \| People & Events \| PBS
		McCarthy entered politics in 1948, when he was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives on Minnesota's Democratic-Farmer-Labor ticket.
		Editorial pages were filled with charges of opportunism, arrogance, and the familiar "ruthlessness." Journalist Murray Kempton wrote that in his "rage at Eugene McCarthy for having survived on the lonely road he dared not walk himself," Kennedy had "in one day...
		McCarthy kept going, but ultimately lost the nomination at the convention in Chicago to Vice President Hubert Humphrey, who had not run in a single primary.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/amex/rfk/peopleevents/p_mccarthy.html (1106 words)

	Eugene McCarthy and the Rise and Fall of Postwar American Liberalism by Dominic Sandbrook
		Eugene noted that his grandfather was said to have been "especially learned about and agitated by the British treatment of the Irish over the centuries." Eugene's father, also named Michael, was born in 1875, one of eleven children.
		Eugene's mother, Anna Baden, was the daughter of a Bavarian miller and flsmith who had moved to Minnesota during the great surge of German Catholic immigration after the revolutions of 1848.
		While Eugene was growing up, however, the county was gripped by an atmosphere of increasing fear, agitation and class consciousness, exemplified by the popularity in the county of agricultural cooperatives and of A. Townley's Non-Partisan League, which paved the way for the success of the radical Minnesota Farmer-Labor Party in the 1930s.
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	"Clean for Gene": Eugene McCarthy and the Presidential Election of 1968"
		Eugene McCarthy was active in many different aspects of the United States government, including the armed forces and Congress.(Digiovanni) Whether he was writing a book, writing poetry, talking business, becoming a U.S. representative, or becoming a U.S. senator, Eugene McCarthy lived the "American Dream" and made a difference.
		Eugene McCarthy was born in Watkins, Minnesota in 1916.
		Eugene McCarthy was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1948.
	www.ncs.pvt.k12.va.us /ryerbury/wes/wes.htm (1009 words)

	Former Senator Eugene McCarthy Dies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		McCarthy died in his sleep at assisted living home in the Georgetown neighborhood where he had lived for the past few years, said his son, Michael.
		McCarthy got less than 1 percent of the vote in 1992 in New Hampshire, the state where he helped change history 24 years earlier.
		McCarthy and his followers went to the party convention in Chicago, where fellow Minnesotan Humphrey won the nomination amid bitter strife both on the convention floor and in the streets.
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	Boston.com / A&E / Books / Shedding light on liberalism through the prism of Eugene McCarthy
		McCarthy seems so frozen in time and so associated with one grand moment that it requires some stretching of the mind to give him a broader personal and political context.
		McCarthy gave up a settled teaching career to run for Congress from Minnesota in the 1948 "Fair Deal" election and, under the patronage of the Southern Democratic leadership, rose rapidly up the ranks.
		McCarthy attended St. John's University, associated with the Benedictine abbey in Collegeville, Minn. In the 1930s, Sandbrook writes, St. John's was "a hotbed of Catholic thought," encompassing both medievalism and social radicalism, liturgical reform and economic justice.
	www.boston.com /ae/books/articles/2004/05/11/shedding_light_on_liberalism_through_the_prism_of_eugene_mccarthy (763 words)

	Eugene McCarthy: 1916-2005
		McCarthy's mentor at St. John's wrote in 1938 that capitalism was dying, "and should die." McCarthy's impulse at this point was to separate himself from a sinful bourgeois world.
		McCarthy's antiwar position in 1967-68 was hardly radical--he offered the basic liberal fare that dovish senators had been promoting for two years: stop the bombing of the North, negotiate with the National Liberation Front, withdraw troops in phases and support a coalition government in Saigon.
		McCarthy was partly responsible for Nixon's victory, Sandbrook suggests, because he did not endorse his old Minnesota mentor until a week before the election, and he failed to campaign for the Democratic candidate or rally his supporters in key states --New Jersey, Illinois and California--that Nixon carried by small margins.
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	MNHS.ORG \| Library \| History Topics \| Eugene McCarthy
		One of the most distinguished politicians in Minnesota history, Eugene McCarthy was born in Watkins, Minnesota, in 1916.
		Eugene McCarthy died on December 10, 2005, in Woodville, Virginia.
		Concern bills introduced or supported by McCarthy; issues and legislation of concern to various congressional committees and public opinion on them; and the work of the committees on which McCarthy served, particularly the House Ways and Means Committee and the Senate Finance Committee.
	www.mnhs.org /library/tips/history_topics/49mccarthy.html (1437 words)

	Eugene McCarthy's Presidential Campaign-1968
		Although the press and polls were skeptical that McCarthy's candidacy could effectively contest Johnson's war policy, young people in particular flocked to his banner.
		After McCarthy won 42 percent of the vote in the Demoratic primary, the contest changed.
		"McCarthy rising from the people" is the impression given by the McCarthy banner draped over the railing in the lobby of the Hilton Hotel, Democratic convention headquarters in Chicago.
	www.jofreeman.com /photos/McCarthy.html (417 words)

	Eugene McCarthy
		In truth, the bitter legacy of Eugene McCarthy - a man who stood on principle for a cause larger than himself - is that he has been succeeded in politics by men who lack principle, and have as their cause themselves.
		McCarthy was hardly a national figure when Allard Lowenstein and other leaders of the "dump Johnson" movement approached him in 1967, seeking an anti-Vietnam candidate who would challenge the president in the 1968 primaries.
		McCarthy was characteristically reticent and ambivalent at the outset of the campaign, insisting in almost academic fashion that he was not "running" for president but was "willing" to serve.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /USAmccarthyE.htm (5566 words)

	Eugene J. McCarthy, Senate Dove Who Jolted '68 Race, Dies at 89
		Eugene McCarthy left his mark in a generation's skepticism toward war and the willfulness of political leaders.
		McCarthy was a disarming presence on the stump as he mixed a wry tone and a hard, existential edge in challenging the White House, the Pentagon and the superpower swagger of modern politicians.
		Eugene Joseph McCarthy, of Irish-German descent, was born March 29, 1916, in Watkins, Minn., the son of Michael J. and Anna Baden McCarthy.
	www.commondreams.org /cgi-bin/print.cgi?file=/headlines05/1211-04.htm (2067 words)

	The New Yorker: The Critics: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		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.
		In 1973, McCarthy explored the possibility of running for Congress from Minnesota’s Sixth District, the part of the state where he was born, but he was made to understand that the Democrats of the Sixth District did not find the possibility thrilling, and he didn’t run.
		McCarthy now lives in a retirement home in Washington, D.C. “Eugene McCarthy: The Rise and Fall of Postwar American Liberalism” (Knopf; $25.95), by Dominic Sandbrook, a young British historian, is an effort to map McCarthy’s career onto the history of American liberalism.
	www.newyorker.com /critics/books?040405crbo_books (2417 words)

	NPR : Remembering Eugene McCarthy
		McCarthy was first elected to the House from Minnesota in 1948.
		And when you think of 1968, you also remember Eugene McCarthy, the Democratic senator from Minnesota, whose presidential candidacy was based on opposition to the war in Vietnam and who helped bring down a president.
		In 1968 Eugene McCarthy was an imperfect candidate leading an improbable cause.
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	The Kennedys and McCarthyism
		McCarthy was invited to the wedding reception for Eunice and Sargent Shriver, and even presented Eunice with a silver cigarette case inscribed "To Eunice and Bob from one who lost."
		McCarthy already had an intense dislike of Lodge, and had such a good rapport with the Kennedys that the decision was easy for him.
		JFK may have regretted the McCarthy connection in later years, but the assertion of the JFK-As-Progressive advocates that he was never close to, nor sympathetic to McCarthy during the critical years prior to 1954 is totally contradicted by JFK's own words and deeds.
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	Eugene McCarthy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		American politician Eugene McCarthy was born in Watkins, Minnesota, and later taught at the College of St. Thomas in St. Paul in his home state.
		With the backing of large numbers of college students, McCarthy achieved great success in the early primaries, contributing to Johnson's decision to withdraw from the Presidential race in 1968.
		McCarthy lost the nomination to Hubert Humphrey, retired from the Senate in 1971 and returned to teaching.
	www.multied.com /Bio/people/McCarthy.html (172 words)

	The Voice of the Turtle
		But McCarthy, who loathed Kennedy, was profoundly affected by his murder, even blaming himself for the harsh rhetoric with which he had attacked Kennedy's late, opportunistic entry to the race.
		McCarthy now lives in rural Virginia, frequently firing broadsides at the likes of Bush and Clinton, demanding that Clinton 'sack all the Rhodes scholars and everyone from Arkansas' and that Fidel Castro be offered the job of national baseball commissioner.
		McCarthy is perhaps the most seriously Catholic politician, or ex-politician, in the country, drawing inspiration from the likes of Aquinas and Jacques Maritain, and his intellectual background lies in a kind of neo-medieval rejection of modern capitalism.
	www.voiceoftheturtle.org /show_article.php?aid=35 (1775 words)

	Biography for Eugene McCarthy (III) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Eugene McCarthy, the U.S. Senator from Minnesota whose maverick anti-war Presidential campaign in 1968 toppled Lyndon Johnson from power, was born on March 29, 1916, in the small town of Watkins, Minnesota.
		A well-educated person, McCarthy was an extremely erudite individual,a nd he attracted support from not only anti-war youth but from intellectuals, and many celebrities, including movie superstar Paul Newman, who had actively campaigned for McCarthy in New Hampshire.
		Eugene McCarthy declined to run for a third term in the Senate in 1970 (his seat was won by Hubert Humphrey) and devoted much of his time to writing, including poetry.
	www.imdb.com /name/nm0565130/bio (872 words)

	Archives - Eugene J. McCarthy on Politicians, Politics and the Media
		On Thursday, McCarthy [also an independent candidate for the presidency in 1976] showed up at the University of Virginia's Miller Center to slam the establishment yet again, taking aim at everyone from former president George Bush to Washington Post publisher Katharine Graham to Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia.
		McCarthy (and his illustrator, Christopher Millis) had found lurking in their imaginations.
		Even though McCarthy is considered by many in his own party far left of the political mainstream, he sounded, at moments, a smidgen right-of-center, railing against spendthrift politicians and campaign-reform efforts that would limit individual contributions.
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	Random House \| Books \| Eugene McCarthy by Dominic Sandbrook
		Eugene McCarthy was one of the most fascinating political figures of the postwar era: a committed liberal anti-Communist who broke with his party’s leadership over Vietnam and ultimately helped take down the political giant Lyndon B. Johnson.
		We see McCarthy elected from Minnesota to the House and then to the Senate, part of a new liberal movement that combined New Deal domestic policies and fierce Cold War hawkishness, a consensus that produced huge electoral victories until it was shattered by the war in Vietnam.
		McCarthy went on to lose the nomination to Hubert Humphrey at the infamous 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, which secured his downfall and led to Richard Nixon’s election, but he had pulled off one of the greatest electoral upsets in American history, one that helped shape the political landscape for decades.
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	McCarthy, Eugene Joseph on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		MCCARTHY, EUGENE JOSEPH [McCarthy, Eugene Joseph] 1916-2005, U.S. political leader, b.
		Defeated for the nomination by Hubert H. Humphrey, McCarthy retired from the Senate and resumed (1973) teaching, but subsequently mounted several (1972, 1976, 1988, 1992) futile campaigns for the presidency.
		EUGENE MCCARTHY; 1916 - 2005; Minnesota senator shook world in `68; A DFL Party architect, Eugene McCarthy roiled the political waters for nearly 50 years.(NEWS)
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/M/McC1arthyE1.asp (423 words)

	Salon Directory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		At the end of November in 1967, when the Vietnam War seemed at the point of no return, with chaos on campuses and violence in the streets of American cities, Sen. Eugene McCarthy did what in those days was unthinkable: He challenged an incumbent president for the nomination of their party.
		Throughout the 1950s and '60s, Gene McCarthy sought to curb the influence of the CIA and the military-industrial complex on American foreign policy, and as a senator he led the fight to extend Social Security coverage to the mentally and physically disabled.
		He has also inspired a controversial new book, "Eugene McCarthy: The Rise and Fall of Postwar American Liberalism," by Dominic Sandbrook, a British scholar whose research on McCarthy was funded in part by the Lyndon Baines Johnson Foundation.
	www.salon.com /opinion/feature/2004/06/07/mccarthy/index_np.html (1179 words)

	Eugene J. McCarthy -- Encyclopædia Britannica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		McCarthy, Eugene J. senator, whose entry into the 1968 race for the Democratic presidential nomination ultimately led President Lyndon B. Johnson to drop his bid for reelection.
		McCarthy, Joseph R. senator who dominated the early 1950s by his sensational but unproved charges of Communist subversion in high government circles.
		McCarthy was born on June 21, 1912, in Seattle, Wash. After graduating from Vassar College in 1933, she...
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9049640 (711 words)

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