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By LOU HATTER
Rappahannock News Staff Writer
Former Senator Eugene McCarthy announced last week that he is a candidate for President of the United States. At a press conference in Philadelphia last Wednesday, Mr. McCarthy said he will run on the Consumer Party ticket in Pennsylvania, although he will run as an independent in states where there is no organized third party in place.
Mr. McCarthy talked about his plans during an interview with the Rappahannock News on Friday at his home in Rappahannock County.
Though it’s June, the weather is cool in the mountains, and a thread of smoke trails skyward from the chimney. The senator’s new puppy, a purebred Australian border shepherd named Cactus Alice (“I call her Punky because the hair on top of her head stands straight up”) is at his side as he greets a visitor in the driveway.
A fire bums in the stone fireplace in his study. In the comer, a music stand sits with a clarinet nearby, a pair of reading glasses hang from the music stand’s frame.
Sitting at his desk, with his pants tucked into a pair of worn leather boots, sporting a comfortably worn chamois shirt, the former Democratic senator from Minnesota appears an unlikely presi
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