Saying we should keep the two-party system simply because i… - Eugene McCarthy

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Saying we should keep the two-party system
simply because it is working is like saying
the Titanic voyage was a success because
a few people survived on life rafts.

Eugene McCarthy

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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.

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Alternative Names: Eugene Joseph "Gene" McCarthy • Eugene Joseph McCarthy • Gene McCarthy • Eugene J. McCarthy

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