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Article: Chuck Hagel makes the case for conscience; In that, he's like Eugene McCarthy, a man with whom he once was at odds.(NEWS)(Opinion Exchange)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
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- September 27, 2009
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Byline: NICK COLEMAN
In 1968, the year he was wounded and nearly died in Vietnam, a young soldier from Nebraska named Chuck Hagel didn't think much of people like Eugene J. McCarthy.
Hagel, who was 22 in 1968, believed that the Vietnam War was a noble effort. (He changed his mind only after hearing tape recordings of President Lyndon Johnson admitting during the war that he knew it could not be won, but that he didn't want to be blamed for losing.) McCarthy, meanwhile, was an antiwar senator from Minnesota whose 1968 campaign for president would prod Johnson to not seek reelection and would bring Bobby Kennedy into the race. McCarthy believed the war was ...
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