Quote of the day
Not content to have the audience in the palm of his hand, he goes one further and clinches his fist.
Eugene McCarthy
Born: March 29, 1916
Died: December 10, 2005 (aged 89)
Bio: Eugene Joseph "Gene" McCarthy was an American politician, poet, and a long-time member of the United States Congress from Minnesota. He served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1949 to 1959 and the U.S. Senate from 1959 to 1971.
Known for:
- No-fault politics (1998)
- Nonfinancial economics (1989)
- Eugene J. McCarthy: Selected Poems (1997)
- A Colony of the World (1992)
- Parting shots from my brittle bow (2004)