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Jul 4, 2024 · This decision angered anti-war activists aligned with candidates like Eugene McCarthy and Robert F. Kennedy, leading to widespread protests. The scenes of unrest broadcast nationwide underscored ...
Jul 3, 2024 · Earlier that March, Johnson only narrowly won the New Hampshire primary against the anti-war candidate Sen. Eugene McCarthy. Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, the brother of the man whose assassination ...
6 days ago · Eugene McCarthy, Robert F. Kennedy and Humphrey emerged as the three major candidates in the Democratic primaries until Kennedy was assassinated. His death after midnight on June 6, 1968, continued a streak of high-profile assassinations in the 1960s .
Jul 2, 2024 · As time went on, Johnson gained more reasons to consider retirement. His approval ratings were tanking because of the Vietnam War, at times hovering below 40 percent. He underperformed in primaries versus protest candidate Eugene McCarthy, a Minnesota senator.
Jul 3, 2024 · Meanwhile, Sen. Eugene McCarthy declared his candidacy for the Democratic presidential nomination, an unprecedented affront to a sitting president, and Robert Kennedy announced his own candidacy soon thereafter.
Jul 2, 2024 · Two days later, the wing’s only presidential candidate, Senator Eugene McCarthy of Minnesota, took 42 percent of the vote in the New Hampshire primary, surprisingly only eight points behind...
6 days ago · After President Joe Biden’s rocky debate performance reignited questions about his age and mental acuity, Democrats have only a few options to replace him as their nominee. And the Democratic National Convention is only 46 days away. Through the party’s primaries, which ended in June, the president claimed more than 3,800 of his party’s ...
