The presidential election of 1968 ... home of the nation's first primary election. The effort paid off and in March 1968, McCarthy shocked the political world by winning 42 percent of the vote.

The poet was Eugene McCarthy, who happened to reside in the U.S, Senate. The president ... As 1968 dawned, Johnson seemed, like most incumbents, to be in a strong position for re-election.

But in 1968 ... presidential race and brought Robert Kennedy in. He helped set in motion one of the most turbulent years in American history. A native of Watkins, Minnesota, Eugene Joseph ...

WHEN presidential aspirant Eugene J. McCarthy mentioned ... the kind of bitterness on which, as one McCarthy official put it, "an entire campaign can be built." About 2000 Johnson supporters ...

Eugene McCarthy told a roaring Fenway Park audience Thursday night that the nation has a chance this year to become “an America of confidence, an America which trusts its own judgment.” ...