Gene and Me

I used to be an admirer of Eugene McCarthy. While Senator from Minnesota, he was just about the first prominent figure in the political establishment to come out unambiguously against the Vietnam War. When he started to campaign for the Democratic nomination for president in 1968, McCarthy heartened thousands of young people who had been struggling to make opposition to the war a major issue in American politics. The more dogmatic elements of the New Left refused to support McCarthy (he was n...