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Our View
Nostalgia
Eugene McCarthy died and was buried this past
week. As a former Senator from the State of
Minnesota, McCarthy had a long political career that eventually brought him to hills of Rappahannock County where he spent a number of years and where he developed many long and lasting friendships.
This editor remembers Eugene McCarthy in a distinct way. When I was bom, Eugene McCarthy was serving in the United States House of Representatives. By the time i was a senior in high school, McCarthy was campaigning in Portland, Oregon where I was raised.
I was president of the International Club at my Catholic, all girls school and thought I was being very politically astute by sponsoring a Vietnam Conference.
There were speakers for and against and I thought, at 18, to be very savvy about our government’s policies and what they should or should not be doing. Several of my friends joined many Oregonians in greeting McCarthy at a political rally. I remember his gentle smile as he shook my hand. I hoped that he would see that I was wearing a ‘Vote for McCarthy” button. It was 1968.
McCarthy won in Oregon beating out Bobby Kennedy but eventually lost out to Hubert Humphrey for that year’s presidential candidacy.
The years passed and my politics changed.
McCarthy’s name would surface from time to time and eventually I read of him more of a writer and poet rather than a politician. When I assumed the position of editor here, I would come across his name in our archives. Was he the same McCarthy that I had cheered for in Oregon all those years ago?
McCarthy always struck me as an idealistic college professor that truly wanted to make a difference in the political, arena. While never catapulted to the presidency, he, nevertheless made his mark.
When I heard that he had died, a part of me went way back to a time when I was young and trying to be politically savvy and Fd hung my hat on his star in the hopes that all would be right with the world one day.
There are many in Rappahannock County whose memories of McCarthy are fresher and much newer than mine. We would like to remember him by printing some of those memories. Send to asherman@timespapers.com
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