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People's World
April 2, 2018
Eugene McCarthy had already launched a presidential campaign the previous fall based on ending the war. Without discounting the persuasiveness of these arguments, scholar Vaughn Davis Bornet offers a different interpretation in an article, “The Real Reason LBJ Didn't Run for Re-Election in 1968.”.
Smithsonian
April 2, 2018
(NMAAHC, gift of Vincent DeForest). On May 7, Kennedy won the Indiana primary. Three weeks later, he lost Oregon to U.S. Senator Eugene McCarthy of Minnesota, and on June 4, he triumphed again in California and South Dakota. After RFK's early-morning victory speech in Los Angeles, Sirhan Sirhan, ...
Oskaloosa Herald
April 2, 2018
The big story in politics at the time, Brokaw recalled, was Kennedy versus Eugene McCarthy for the Democratic presidient nomination, especially after President Lyndon Johnson on March 31 announced he would not seek a second presidential term. The nomination would eventually go to Vice President ...
Southgate News Herald
March 30, 2018
It was on March 12, 1968, that McCarthy ran a strong second-place finish behind President Lyndon Johnson in the New Hampshire Democratic Primary. The result had a strong political effect. Bobby Kennedy declared his candidacy four days later and Johnson, rocked by the close result in the New ...
MinnPost
March 16, 2018
Emboldened by one of the finest grassroots campaign in our country's history, Eugene McCarthy, Minnesota's senior U.S. senator at the time and better known as Gene, nearly defeated incumbent President Lyndon Johnson in the March 12 New Hampshire primary. Johnson received 49 percent of the vote ...
Minneapolis Star Tribune
March 10, 2018
And on March 12, 1968, it all came crashing down, thanks to a Minnesotan. Sen. Eugene McCarthy scored 42 percent of the vote in the New Hampshire primary that day, a shocking result that pierced the illusion of Johnson's omnipotence. The Texas political giant left the presidential race by the end of the ...
New York Times
March 8, 2018
Fifty years ago next week, Senator Eugene McCarthy of Minnesota scored a near-upset in New Hampshire's Democratic presidential primary, setting in motion Lyndon Johnson's announcement, three weeks later, that he would “not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as ...
Los Angeles Times
March 1, 2018
Eugene McCarthy came within 230 votes of defeating Johnson in the New Hampshire Democratic primary. Four days later, Sen. Robert Kennedy, younger brother of the slain president, announced that he too would challenge the incumbent. At the end of the month, a weary Johnson delivered a long, ...
GazetteNET
March 1, 2018
As Eugene McCarthy showed in 1968 or Bernie Sanders showed again in 2016, it is possible to conduct effective outsider and insurgent politics within the two parties. But effective politics is only possible within the two parties. Anything else is a temper tantrum. Two-party dominance of the electoral process ...
The Pathway
February 28, 2018
I supported Eugene McCarthy for president when I was a teenager. McCarthy was an ultra-liberal who opposed Vice President Hubert Humphrey for the Democrat Party nomination for president in 1968. McCarthy supported abortion, feminism and hated our military. He was so far to the political left, that a ...
The American Prospect
February 28, 2018
On March 31, Johnson—facing strong opposition from anti-war candidates Eugene McCarthy and Robert Kennedy—announced he would not seek re-election that year. Meanwhile, the Smothers brothers continued to find themselves in trouble with CBS. In the 1968-1969 season premiere, the network ...
The American Interest
February 27, 2018
If Mr. Berschinski believes that there is something the matter with criticising the military, let him start with George McGovern and Eugene McCarthy. FriendlyGoat. You would think we might have a Congress, even a Republican Congress, pointing out that no money has ever been appropriated for the CIC to ...
NPR
February 27, 2018
Martin Luther King Jr. was preparing to begin several marches that would highlight the poverty of black America. And politicians in his own Democratic Party, such as Minnesota Sen. Eugene McCarthy and, later former Attorney General Robert Kennedy, were making noises about challenging him for the ...
Parsons Sun
February 2, 2018
Share? Posted: Saturday, February 3, 2018 12:34 am. Letter writer had wrong McCarthy. To The Sun: In a Jan. 27 Public Mind, Richard Sengphiel of Lawrence claims to remember when Sen. Eugene McCarthy of Wisconsin was destroying careers while rooting out non-existent communists in the 1950s.
Sioux City Journal (blog)
December 31, 1999
Hard Time Party: An interesting party was given at the home of the Wall family at 411 Market St. It was a Hard Time Party where there was not a chair in sight and everyone sat on the floor. Ragged coats and trousers, worn-out boots, dresses and bonnets of a forgotten generation made up the costumes.
Heavy.com
December 9, 2017
When he was 16, Ingenhousz finished at the Latin school in Breda and began to study medicine at the University of Leuven in Belgium, according to a biography by Eugene McCarthy. He completed his medical degree in 1753 and then studied science for two more years at the University of Leiden, in the ...
TwinCities.com-Pioneer Press
December 8, 2017
Undated black and white courtesy photo of Lawrence "Larry" O'Shaughnessy, a Lawrence O'Shaughnessy receives an honorary doctorate from St. Thomas in 1996. (Courtesy of the University of St. Thomas). U.S. Sen. Eugene McCarthy put forward his name to become ambassador to Ireland in the 1960s.
KSTP.com
December 7, 2017
"It will certainly mean a lot of eyes on Minnesota, and a lot of dollars spent here," said Matt Lindstrom, a political science professor at St. John's University, and the director of the school's Eugene McCarthy Center for Public Policy and Civic Engagement. The winner of that special election would then fill the ...
University of St. Thomas Newsroom
December 5, 2017
Eugene McCarthy put forward his name to become ambassador to Ireland in the 1960s. O'Shaughnessy declined the position, Rogers said, because his wife was ill at the time. The institute chose to move to New Jersey but without O'Shaughnessy's support. He instead financially supported the founding of ...
New York Times
December 5, 2017
Alongside the activists, a growing number of establishment Democrats, including Senators Eugene McCarthy and Robert Kennedy, at last joined McGovern in openly opposing the war. In April 1967 these developments moved Johnson to call Gen. William Westmoreland home to assure Americans there ...
The Hill
December 3, 2017
The hysteria wrought by the perceived threat of communism during the early stages of the Cold War —the Red Scare — promulgated by Senator Eugene McCarthy (D-Minn.) damaged our country immeasurably, and turned neighbor on neighbor. But we have the luxury of 20/20 hindsight. Again, are we to ...
Youngstown Vindicator
December 2, 2017
Eugene McCarthy in Chicago to ask him to run a full slate of delegates in Ohio for the Democratic presidential convention. Girard school crossing guard Tony Tritto, 80, suffers a fatal heart attack after a child, Elizabeth Nitzski, was struck at his intersection. The child was treated for multiple bruises. Plans for ...
KSTP.com
December 1, 2017
And in many ways, it was an announcement by Minnesota's senior U.S. Senator Eugene McCarthy 50 years ago this week that served as the opening act ... Lindstrom, a political science professor at St. John's and the director of the school's Eugene McCarthy Center for Public Policy and Civic Engagement.
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
November 19, 2017
That has to be unsettling for a lawmaker whose resume includes the Eugene McCarthy campaign of 1968 and a stint working for Sen. Walter F.
Gloucester Daily Times
November 18, 2017
That has to be unsettling for a lawmaker whose resume includes the Eugene McCarthy campaign of 1968 and a stint working for Sen. Walter F.
Madison.com
November 18, 2017
Eugene McCarthy won the Democratic primary in Wisconsin with 56 percent ... Eugene McCarthy, or for a sizable crossover to the Republicans.
Williston Daily Herald
November 16, 2017
... the party was in the post-1968 period after Hubert Humphrey won the nomination over George McGovern and Eugene McCarthy. By this time ...
seattlepi.com
November 16, 2017
Brian Baird used to hit the road as a six-term congressman from southwestern Washington, holding hundreds of town meetings, until his last ...
Minneapolis Star Tribune
November 10, 2017
Associated Press Sen. Eugene McCarthy, D-Minn., spoke at a Los Angeles rally in May 1968. He emerges as the hero of “Playing With Fire.”.
Sioux Falls Argus Leader
November 10, 2017
She talks of Eugene McCarthy and his accusations that several members of Congress were communist traitors. Actually, Joseph McCarthy was ...
ThisCantBeHappening!
October 31, 2017
... the peace campaigns of both Eugene McCarthy and Robert Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson's decision not to seek another term as President.
Politico
October 31, 2017
Eugene McCarthy's failed presidential bid in 1968. It was the start of many Senate and presidential campaigns in the '70s and '80s. In 1981 ...
Fillmore County Journal
October 30, 2017
In the '60s, progressive senators like Hubert Humphrey, Eugene McCarthy and Walter Mondale continued making sure that Minnesota was ...
Vulture
October 30, 2017
In the current issue of New York, David Marchese talks to Jimmy Kimmel about the late-night host's recent emergence as a Cronkite for the ...
Coos Bay World
October 29, 2017
J. William Fulbright of Arkansas, Eugene McCarthy of Minnesota and George S. McGovern of South Dakota against Lyndon B. Johnson, ...
TwinCities.com-Pioneer Press
October 21, 2017
He came of age alongside young Midwestern social-gospel progressives, including Hubert Humphrey, Eugene McCarthy and Walter Mondale.
Locus Online
October 18, 2017
So was John Kerry; so were Dr. Spock, Eugene McCarthy, Martin Luther King, and, ultimately, Robert Kennedy. Another disclosure: I thought ...
St. Cloud Times
October 17, 2017
... McCarthy's documentary about her uncle, Eugene McCarthy, the prestigious Minnesota senator and anti-war presidential candidate in 1968.
POLITICO Magazine
October 9, 2017
Two progressive anti-war senators, Eugene McCarthy and Robert Kennedy, took the lion's share of the remaining primary votes (with Kennedy ...
POLITICO Magazine
October 9, 2017
Two progressive anti-war senators, Eugene McCarthy and Robert Kennedy, took the lion's share of the remaining primary votes (with Kennedy ...
Tuscaloosa News
October 8, 2017
... war and helped organize a committee in the city to support the candidacy of Eugene McCarthy for the Democratic nomination for president.
Minneapolis Star Tribune
October 6, 2017
During the 1968 presidential election, Lord acted as liaison between the rival campaigns of his friends Humphrey and Eugene McCarthy.
Sharonherald
October 2, 2017
Eugene McCarthy, D-Minn., who challenged Johnson for the 1968 Democratic presidential nomination and eventually forced him from the race, ...
The Daily Progress
September 27, 2017
Eugene McCarthy, D-Minnesota, who challenged Johnson for the 1968 Democratic presidential nomination and eventually forced him from the ...
News-Herald.com
September 27, 2017
Eugene McCarthy (D-MN), who challenged Johnson for the 1968 Democratic presidential nomination and eventually forced him from the race, ...
The Island Now
September 27, 2017
Eugene McCarthy, a former trustee of Williston Park and a longtime coach, died on Sept. 15. He was 69. McCarthy died after a five-year battle ...
News & Observer (blog)
December 31, 1999
No reporter wrote about Democratic presidential candidate Eugene McCarthy's rumored affairs in 1968 either. After the campaign, McCarthy and his wife Abigail separated. “Many presidential campaigns had such rumors, but in those days, the unwritten rule of the news media was that those stories were ...
Columbus Ledger-Enquirer
December 31, 1999
Eugene McCarthy, D-Minn., announced today he will enter the Democratic presidential primaries. He said he is doing so because the Johnson administration seems to have set no limits on the price it will pay for military victory in Vietnam. In Other News. Police and Mayor Speak About Tampa Killings ...
The Columbus Dispatch
December 31, 1999
Eugene McCarthy, then becoming a driver for South Dakota Sen. George McGovern's campaign, and finally being persuaded by his friend, ...
Penn Yan Chronicle-Express (blog)
December 31, 1999
Eugene McCarthy challenged Johnson for the next year's presidential nomination. *Race riots in Buffalo, Newark, Minneapolis, Detroit, ...
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