He didn't win the White House. He didn't even win his own party's nomination. But in 1968 Eugene McCarthy revealed major divisions among Democrats, changing the political landscape in a way few ...
In November 1967, Senator Eugene McCarthy of Minnesota announced that he would seek the Democratic nomination, and that ending the Vietnam War was his central issue. McCarthy mobilized hundreds of ...
Eugene McCarthy told a roaring Fenway Park audience ... He entered the park from beneath the center field bleachers accompanied by a dozen Secret Service men and Boston policemen - two on horseback.
SENATOR Eugene J. McCarthy made a strong ... after the euphoria of New Hampshire, to yield the center of the stage. But the ideals that prompted him to enter the race now challenge him to an ...