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...looms like a pale ghost from an earlier political era, moving from table to table at a campaign function. When he lingers near one table, there is an uncomfortable silence before someone from a group of reporters asks, "Care to join us, Senator?" Twenty-four years after he ended Lyndon Johnson's hopes for a second term by getting 42% of the vote in the New Hampshire primary, Eugene McCarthy is running for President again, and no one seems to care...
Newman: I can sit here right now and tell you a story about Lyndon Johnson. I'll tell you about the falsification of the figures that makes what CBS went to press with Westmoreland look like kindergarten...
Among the protesters were Martin Luther King Jr.'s widow Coretta King, and Arlo Guthrie and Leonard Bernstein and Peter, Paul and Mary, and Democratic Senator George McGovern, who would run against Nixon in 1972, and Eugene McCarthy, who got into the New Hampshire primary in 1968 against Lyndon Johnson and helped force him to withdraw from the presidential race. McCarthy, now 75, has entered the race this year as well: he has come back like another echo...
...elections, Sen. Eugene J. McCarthycaptured 42 percent of the Democratic vote againstincumbent Lyndon B. Johnson in New Hampshire.Three weeks later, Johnson announced that he wouldnot seek re-election...
...would never do such nasty things, however, the administration has effectively called these people liars. In their defense, Amnesty International reports that more than 1500 people have died since the coup in September. Still, all these folks could be lying. And Cedras could be telling the truth. And Lyndon Larouche could be the next president...