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The Senate is the last primitive society in the world. We still worship the elders of the tribe and ...

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It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.

Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game...

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Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game...

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He's like a football coach who's smart enough to win the game and dumb enough to think it's importa...

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Eugene McCarthy

Former United States Senator

Born: 1916-03-29

Died: 2005-12-10

Eugene Joseph "Gene" McCarthy (29 March 1916 – 10 December 2005) American politician from the U.S. state of Minnesota, serving in the U.S. House of Representatives (1949–1959) and the U.S. Senate from 1959 to 1971 and playing a major role in the 1968 presidential election, unsuccessfully seeking the Democratic nomination on an anti-Vietnam War platform. Although he lost the nomination, he did well enough that the incumbent President Lyndon B. Johnson decided to end his re-election campaign.More