Eugene McCarthy's Death

The politician Eugene McCarthy died at the age of 89. Here is all you want to know, and more!

Biography - A Short Wiki

Senator from Minnesota from 1959 to 1971 who sought the Democratic nomination for president in 1968 on an anti-war platform. He was also an accomplished writer who published a collection of poetry entitled Cool Reflections: Poetry For The Who, What, When, Where and Especially Why of It All.

He separated from his wife of 24 years in 1969 and began a long-term affair with journalist, Marya McLaughlin.

McCarthy died of complications from Parkinson’s disease at age 89 on December 10, 2005, in a retirement home in Georgetown, Washington, D.C., where he had lived for the previous few years.

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Have you ever tried to split sawdust?

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I can still smell the tear gas in the Hilton Hotel.

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

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

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No man could be equipped for the presidency if he has never been tempted by one of the seven cardinal sins.