Photo: #Eugene McCarthy, the former Minnesota U.S. senator and 1968 anti-war presidential candidate, died in 2005.

E.J. Dionne pays tribute to E.J. McCarthy


In a speech at St. John's University this month, Washington Post syndicated columnist E.J. Dionne paid tribute to a Minnesotan who changed history. Eugene McCarthy was the Minnesota Senator whose 1968 anti-Vietnam war presidential campaign forced the end of Lyndon Johnson's re-election bid and galvanized America's youth movement.

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