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To the Editor
Lord Fairfax Community College has been fortunate to get former Sen. Eugene McCarthy to give the inuagural keynote lecture for its new honors seminar at 5:30 p.m. Jan. 23.
The senator has been a resident of this county for many years and I hope all who can will attend this event.
Our younger citizens should know and our older citizens will recall that in the late 1960s and especially during the period leading up to the 1968 presidential election, Eugene McCarthy changed American politics and forever altered the way we judge American intervention abroad.
Sen. McCarthy acted on principle. He did and said what he felt was right, not necessarily what was popular. And certainly not what was easiest or expedient. He provided leadership. He challenged the American people, urging us to follow our highest ideals—justice and fairness at home and abroad.
Sen. McCarthy's style was and is atypical of American politicians. As a leader, he did not fed compelled to change positions as the polls changed. At the same time he respected the people, feeling no need to build a following, or a “movement,” through the use of rabble-rousing tactics and deceit. A movement did indeed develop, quite naturally because Sen. McCarthy was right and, deep down, the people knew it.
WILLIAM B. REMINGTON
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