Rest in Peace, Senator Eugene McCarthy

All he was saying was "Give peace a chance."



All we were saying was "Give peace a chance."
1916-2005: Eugene McCarthy

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Remember "Flower Power"?

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I worked on Senator McCarty's campaign. It marked my shift away from the Republican foundation of my childhood, and launched me into a lifetime of interest in sociopolitical affairs.

I met him once during the campaign...at Burke Lakefront Airport in Cleveland, Ohio. He was a great man, in a very quite and low-key way. And on my last visit to my childhood home, remnants of the flower bumpersticker (that PJ posted above) were still visible on my mom's mailbox, right where I had plastered it in 1968.

I was proud to be Clean for Gene.

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I am very sad to hear this. I adored this man. He was an original. It's men like him (and there are so few) that keep alive the notion that there are respectable, honest and sincere politicians in this world.

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