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Re: "No Country for the Young" by Sen. Eugene McCarthy

Posted: Tue May 31, 2016 11:52 pm
by MinM
Michael Beschloss ‏@BeschlossDC

Video: Robert Kennedy-Eugene McCarthy debate excerpt, California Primary, tomorrow 1968 (4 mins.):
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Re: "No Country for the Young" by Sen. Eugene McCarthy

Posted: Wed Jun 01, 2016 1:28 pm
by NeonLX
MinM » Mon May 30, 2016 6:38 am wrote:
NeonLX » Sun May 22, 2016 9:58 am wrote:The 1968 Democrat convention is what turned my mom completely sour with electoral politics. She was already decidedly anti-war but the process that shat out Hubert Humphrey threw her into a decades-long depression. There was a glimmer of hope with McGovern in 1972, but we all know where that went.
John Nichols

In 1968 @HillaryClinton traveled to NH to campaign for Gene McCarthy's heroic anti-war presidential campaign.
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Wait...wut? My, how people change.