Article: Eugene McCarthy dies at 89.(APPRECIATION)(Obituary)

Nov. 30, 1967, saw a fierce early winter storm blow into Washington. Amid the snowdrifts, another storm gripped the capital: Sen. Gene McCarthy's. The Minnesota Democrat, energized by his personal opposition to the Vietnam War and seeing no one in Congress having the nerve to buck the war making President Lyndon Johnson, announced that he was running for the presidency. "I am hopeful," he said, "that the challenge I am making may alleviate the [current] sense of political helplessness and restore to many people a belief in the processes of American politics."

I remember the day because across town from where Gene McCarthy was having a rousing moment, my wife and ...

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