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Thread #87145   Message #1627659
Posted By: Peace
14-Dec-05 - 09:38 PM
Thread Name: Obit: Eugene McCarthy - 10 Dec 2005
Subject: RE: Obit: Eugene McCarthy - 10 Dec 2005
The papers and the radio they lied to us today,
We need you with your honesty, you know we've been betrayed,
The country needs a statesman, without one it can't stand,
The country needs a President, McCarthy you're the man.

That's the first stanza of a song I wrote for his campaign back in the late 1960s. (Had a catchy melody to go with it.) For what it's worth. I will post the rest of the lyrics when a buddy from California sends me a tape he has with the song on it. I worked for Senator McCarthy for most of the campaign. He had integrity--something that seems to be missing in politics today--and I can only echo what tommiethecommie said.