Eugene McCarthy, left, lost the party's presidential nomination to fellow Minnesota senator Hubert Humphrey, by his side, in 1968. Photograph by : St...
Eugene McCarthy, left, lost the party's presidential nomination to fellow Minnesota senator Hubert Humphrey, by his side, in 1968. Photograph by : St. Paul Pioneer Press, KRT Article Tools Printer friendly E-mail Font: * * * * The Daily Telegraph Published: Monday, December 12, 2005
Senator Eugene McCarthy, who died on Saturday aged 89, was one of the most intelligent and witty American politicians of the post-war period, and the leader of the Democratic revolt against the Vietnam War which forced the withdrawal of president Lyndon Johnson in 1968.
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