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Article: Eugene McCarthy.(Eugene McCarthy, a maverick presidential candidate)(Obituary)
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- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- December 17, 2005
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Eugene Joseph McCarthy, a maverick presidential candidate, died on December 10th, aged 89
WHEN Eugene McCarthy was making his first and most famous attempt on the presidency, in 1968, he was often asked why he was running. It was a good question. And he had a good answer:
Nor law, nor duty bade me fight, Nor public men, nor cheering crowds: A lonely impulse of delight Drove to this tumult in the clouds.
This fragment of Yeats seemed to epitomise the man who quoted it. Irishness, daring, puckish humour, wilful solitariness, a sense of the pervading importance of higher things, were all delivered with professorial elegance by a man once described ...
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