The poet was Eugene McCarthy, who happened to reside in the U.S, Senate. The president was Lyndon B. Johnson. As 1968 dawned, Johnson seemed, like most incumbents, to be in a strong position for ...

Disappointed youths who worked for the presidential nomination of Sen. Eugene McCarthy, D-M.N., sit on the steps of his ...

He didn't win the White House. He didn't even win his own party's nomination. But in 1968 Eugene McCarthy revealed major divisions among Democrats, changing the political landscape in a way few ...

Mary Beth McCarthy Yarrow is the niece of Eugene McCarthy, the former U.S. Senator and Democratic presidential candidate.

Eugene McCarthy told a roaring Fenway Park audience Thursday night that the nation has a chance this year to become “an America of confidence, an America which trusts its own judgment.” ...

In November 1967, Senator Eugene McCarthy of Minnesota announced that he would seek the Democratic nomination, and that ending the Vietnam War was his central issue. McCarthy mobilized hundreds of ...

Johnson declined to run for office again. The anti-war Democratic candidate, Eugene McCarthy, lost his party’s nomination and Richard Nixon became President No. 37, laying bare a fractured ...

SENATOR Eugene J. McCarthy made a strong, encouraging showing against President Johnson in Tuesday's New Hampshire primary. The size of McCarthy's vote not only reflected mounting feeling against ...

Sen. Eugene J. McCarthy (D-Minn.) is running for President of the United States. Although no formal announcement was forthcoming, the clear message of McCarthy's political junket to New England ...