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Remembering
Gene McCarthy
By James J. Kilpatrick
Special to the Rappahannock News
A good rule for columnists is to soft-pedal the First Person Perpendicular. Let me break the rule long enough to voice an affectionate remembrance of Eugene McCarthy. He died December 10 of Parkinson’s disease. He will add a good Irish voice to the choir of angels.
Most of the obituaries dealt almost entirely with Gene’s political career, especially with his quixotic run for the presidency in the Democratic primaries of 1968. On March 2 of that chaotic year he unhorsed Lyndon Johnson in New Hampshire. Suddenly he was Big News.
A few weeks later, in Newark, N.J., I met McCarthy for the first time. I was then covering the campaign for National Review and writing a syndicated column for the old Washington Star. Haynes Johnson was the Star’s senior political corre- • spondent. I must caveat you: lb borrow from Dr. Johnson, in writing their memoirs old reporters are not upon their oaths.
Tbgether we tracked McCarthy to the Military Park Hotel, where he was scheduled to speak to his fans at a campaign
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