Talk:Eugene McCarthy

"...clean for Gene"

§ The 1968 campaign says

A number of anti-war college students and other activists from around the country traveled to New Hampshire to support McCarthy's campaign. Some anti-war students who had the long-haired, counterculture appearance of hippies chose to cut their long hair and shave off their beards, in order to campaign for McCarthy door-to-door, a phenomenon that led to the informal slogan "Get clean for Gene".

I remember it as "Neat and clean for Gene", at least in later phases of the campaign, including in New York (where I met my wife-to-be in it).

A very brief Google search turns up plenty of evidence, some of which I'll park here till I can add it as appropriate:

• Encyclopedia of the Sixties: A Decade of Culture and Counterculture,  edited by Abbe A. Debolt, James S. Baugess, p. 408
• Clean for Gene: Eugene McCarthy's 1968 Presidential Campaign, by George Rising, p. xiii.

--Thnidu (talk) 01:20, 31 August 2014 (UTC)

Military Service

The article states:

"He was a civilian technical assistant in the Military Intelligence Division of the War Department in 1944 and an instructor in sociology and economics at the College of St. Thomas, St. Paul, Minnesota from 1946 to 1949."

However, in another article it is stated:

"After leaving the novitiate [either in 1943 or 1944], McCarthy enlisted in the Army, serving as a code breaker for the Military Intelligence Division of the War Department in Washington, D.C. In 1945, he returned to Minnesota...."

Source: http://www.csbsju.edu/mccarthy-center/about-the-center/who-is-eugene-j-mccarthy (St. Benedict-St. John's, McCarthy Center)

The Wikipedia article indicates that the subject never served in the military whereas this source indicates he did. This seems to constitute a major discrepancy and the source I give seems most reliable. Should the article be corrected?HistoryBuff14 (talk) 18:48, 13 September 2016 (UTC)

I made the change since no one commented and the original text was not sourced. I included my source, but perhaps someone with more tech savvy than me can fix it so it has a reference number which it lacks now, and perhaps add the title: "Who is Eugene J. McCarthy?" The subject deserves to have had his veteran status acknowledged, not to mention that the article should be accurate. Thank you.HistoryBuff14 (talk) 18:41, 14 September 2016 (UTC)

If you were a "civilian technical assistant," you did not serve in the military and are not a veteran. A more direct source of McCarthy's civilian role is the inventory of his papers at the Minnesota Historical Society. Nicmart (talk) 14:14, 25 June 2017 (UTC)

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