Known as a Representative and a Senator from
Minnesota, Eugene McCarthy was more a poet and philosopher, than
politician. What higher compliment can
be made to a man who was elected to serve the people? A society that does not remember or
understand its past cannot and will never be able to confront the present let
along challenge the future. The embodiment of opposition to the Viet Nam debauch
debacle, McCarthy was a true populist.
In the tradition of Robert La Follette Progressives, “Clean
Gene” had a popular appeal among reformers. Entrenched mechanics like Hubert Humphrey
were tools of the establishment, but McCarthy was more the rebel – a Jesse
Ventura – for the intellectual crowd.
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