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7 unusual facts about Eugene McCarthy


Anne Clark Martindell

Her brother Blair Clark was the national campaign director for Eugene McCarthy in the 1968 presidential campaign.

Gene McCarthy

Eugene McCarthy (1916–2005), known as Gene, American politician and poet

James J. Kilpatrick

His other books include The Foxes Union, a recollection of his life in Rappahannock County, Virginia, in the Blue Ridge Mountains; Fine Print: Reflections on the Writing Art; and, A Political Bestiary, which he co-wrote with former U.S. Senator Eugene McCarthy and Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist Jeff MacNelly.

Kitty Kelley

She worked at the New York World's Fair in 1964 and went on to become a receptionist/press secretary for Senator Eugene McCarthy.

Midge Miller

She was an early supporter of the 1968 presidential candidacy of Senator Eugene McCarthy (D-Minnesota), and eventually headed his Wisconsin campaign.

Nick Coleman

He entered politics as a volunteer for the 1948 congressional campaign of Eugene McCarthy, then a professor at the College of St. Thomas (now the University of St. Thomas), where Coleman was a student.

Ron Paul presidential campaign, 1988

The article compared the campaign to that of former U.S. Senator Eugene McCarthy, and made note of Paul's opposition to the CIA's assistance of the Contras in Nicaragua.


Adrian P. Winkel

Winkel also served as an administrative assistant to Congressmen Eugene McCarthy and Philip Burton.

Arlo and Janis

According to Johnson's ex-wife, the newspaper columnist Rheta Grimsley Johnson, the lead characters are named after 1960s music icons Arlo Guthrie and Janis Joplin, and their son after Eugene McCarthy.

Shana Alexander

She had long been rumoured to have had an affair with Eugene McCarthy, but this was disputed by McCarthy's biographer, Dominic Sandbrook, in his 2005 book, Eugene McCarthy and The Rise and Fall of American Liberalism.

Unmuzzled OX

The circulation of Unmuzzled OX peaked at 25,000 in the 80s with The Cantos (121-150) Ezra Pound. Regular contributors to Unmuzzled OX included Allen Ginsberg, Andy Warhol, John Cage, Daniel Berrigan, Eugene McCarthy, Margaret Atwood, Denise Levertov, Robert Peters, Robert Creeley and Gregory Corso.


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