My History Can Beat Up Your Politics
SOMETHING HAPPENED: Eugene McCarthy's 1968 Primary Run
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The race for the Democratic Nomination in 1968 a complicated one, as one candidate would drop out and another die tragically. But for a while, with other candidates choosing not to enter primaries, the '68 Democratic primary became a fight between two concepts of being left in politics and two individuals that couldn't be more different. Robert Kennedy and Eugene McCarthy.
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