Eugene McCarthy, the man who hoped he could both be right and be President, is dead at 89. He had to settle for being right.

He was never President, but he was right in 1968, and he did change the course of history, even if not exactly in the way he intended.

Washington Post story.

Earlier post: No, 2005 is not 1968. Or is it?

UPDATE: Paul Soglin recalls Allard Lowenstein's visit to Madison to start the Dump Johnson movement in Wisconsin.