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… - Eugene McCarthy
" "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.
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About Eugene McCarthy
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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Eugene Joseph McCarthy
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Gene McCarthy
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Eugene J. McCarthy
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There is danger in the concentration of control in the television and radio networks, especially in the large television and radio stations; danger in the concentration of ownership in the press… and danger in the increasing concentration of selection by book publishers and reviewers and by the producers of radio and television programs.
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