Eugene McCarthy person
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William Fulbright supported
Eugene McCarthy documented
“Because he didn't understand they actually work for those civilians and not the senators nor the president. Fulbright became a strong supporter of a bill offered by Senator McCarthy calling for an investigation of the CIA by a panel of the …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner president’s secret wars chapter 16 @ 11:50
Allard Lowenstein associated_with
Eugene McCarthy host_asserted
“He was the key pivot man in a sort of dump Lyndon Johnson movement that was first went for what I consider a CIA bait divider candidate, namely Eugene McCarthy. Those children were too damn clean for Gene, if you know what I agency mean, Co…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Invisible Soldiers Part 9 @ 1:24:39
Robert F. Kennedy competed_against
Eugene McCarthy host_asserted
“his reelection bid. But there still was Johnson's surrogate, Hubert Humphrey, to contend with, as well as Nixon. Entering the campaign late, Kennedy threw himself into the primary race with determination, knowing that he was fighting an uph…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 26 (Final) @ 31:28
Eugene McCarthy trained
Vietnam host_asserted
“there's a guy they don't give his whole name they just give his name as gene who had he was a former professional football player from green bay packers um who was over there basically um part of the training staff for um teaching people uh…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Vietnam Part 7 @ 39:47
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Let me get my timeline here so I don't screw it up. You had late 1967, McCarthy, Eugene McCarthy, out of nowhere, kind of announces his presidency run. And he was actually going to run against the incumbent Johnson, LBJ, for president, whic…
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RFK's dad, sees Eugene McCarthy being able to gain traction against LBJ because of the Vietnam War, which we're going to touch on, and was able to significantly challenge LBJ in the New Hampshire primary. And so RFK decides to throw his hat…
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Nixon announces on the 1st of February. Wallace announces on the 8th of February. So now we have the field set between a viable competitor, McCarthy, gaining on LBJ. Nixon on the opposite side of the aisle. Wallace comes in as a third-party…
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The March 12th New Hampshire primary, where LBJ is the incumbent, barely squeaks it out over McCarthy. That vulnerability is like blood in the water, and RFK jumps in a few days later. As we're going to see, there's other extenuating circum…
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As within a month and a half, the continued momentum of McCarthy and RFK is just it's on steroids. So Humphrey, he can't compete because he missed the registration. RFK is on a roll. He wins California, which basically seals the deal for hi…
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that very night that he wins, he's murdered. He's assassinated. So that's the second assassination. You have MLK and then you have RFK. And at the beginning of August, Nixon wraps up the nomination for the Republican side. And at the end of…
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has actually gotten electorals all the way through this entire season, Humphrey ends up with the nomination out of the convention. So not unlike what's exactly happening this year, which is the similarities are just crazy to this story. And…
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And when you go back and you look at 1968, a lot of the commentary dubbed that year, year of tragedy. And I was unaware of all of the different people that was involved in the 1968 race. There was people I had no idea was involved in that r…
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LBJ, Senator McCarthy, RFK on the Democrat side. On the Republican side, you had Romney's dad, Nelson Rockefeller, and Reagan, who at some point during the 1968 season had either officially declared they were running,…
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Understand, we're not in uncharted territory. These people use a playbook. So let's kind of dive into what that playbook looked like in 1968. On the Democrat side, initially, and let me get you some dates here. I did a brief timeline. So in…
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announces that he's running against LBJ. Now, keep in mind, LBJ is the sitting president. So that's not unlike what RFK Jr. did to Biden, right? He announced he's running against him. And LBJ, in some cases, like in New Hampshire,…
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wasn't even on the ballot. He won New Hampshire as a write-in over McCarthy, but not by a lot. And so again, you see the parallels where we're being told that people can't be on the ballot. It really doesn't matter. 1968 proved that. So thi…
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March the 12th is when LBJ wins the narrow victory in New Hampshire against McCarthy. And that's kind of his holy shit moment. That McCarthy has way more traction. Wallace being in the game.…
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changes it as well because he's going to draw Southern Democrats away from LBJ. And things are kind of getting like the writing on the wall type of scenario. And once Robert Kennedy sees the blood in the water as a result of New Hampshire, …
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his announcing that he's going to be running for president. So we're at the end of April. Humphrey's in. We've got Wallace in. We've got RFK in on the Democrat side. McCarthy's in and doing very well. And basically, Humphrey gets no tractio…
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So this is a two-man race, and it's McCarthy against RFK. And they're dueling it out in state after state after state. Well, RFK starts winning several of the primaries. Going into the Oregon primary, very contentious. And McCarthy manages …
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California becomes a do or die primary. And again, it's neck and neck with McCarthy and RFK, not the other two. They're not even in the race. I mean, technically they're in the race, but no one votes for them. As a matter of fact, I have th…
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The race that was in California was like 49-43. So the other ones got like 2% combined. That's how competitive this race was between RFK and McCarthy. Well, June 4th, RFK, that June 4th that year is the California primary and RFK wins.…
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And that's basically when Eugene McCarthy jumped into the primary. And that's when during this time is when people made the comment, which I found very interesting, given the parallel to today, that Nixon had basically been a part of the sh…
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He initially starts trying to defend LBJ, but that falls flat. And so he kind of tries distancing himself from that. And again, McCarthy and RFK start pulling away in the primary. And that obviously is when everybody started getting nervous…
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there's a guy they don't give his whole name they just give his name as gene who had he was a former professional football player from green bay packers um who was over there basically um part of the training staff for um teaching people uh…
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almost entirely middle class, right? Almost entirely, quote unquote, well-educated, but that's it, well-educated in CIA's United States. And we know what that means. And yet the working class, you know, not exactly Ralph Nader people. So if…
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Let's think about had RFK survived to Chicago. That's a link between the protesters in the streets and inside the convention. Right. So that's a continuity and political continuity of bringing on a whole new group of people, not only as as …
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Senators Eugene McCarthy and Frank Church, among the Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield, depored the escalation. By February 25th, Symington, with Mansfield and Senators Charles Mathias, Albert Gore, John Sherman Copper, and Charles Perc…
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Because he didn't understand they actually work for those civilians and not the senators nor the president. Fulbright became a strong supporter of a bill offered by Senator McCarthy calling for an investigation of the CIA by a panel of the …
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The McCarthy bill posed a challenge to the existing minimal legislative oversight, and now Mike Mansfield was the majority leader in the Senate. Lyndon B. Johnson, as majority leader in 1956, had helped oppose Mansfield's original bill, but…
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was given advice from the White House and basically was having communications with Bill Moyers, the same Bill Moyers that ends up being a journalist. The strategy was worked out in meetings and phone calls between McPherson and Senator Russ…
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which was defeated in a vote 61-28, July 1966. To pacify the proponents of the legislation, Fulbright and the ranking Republican member of his committee were then invited by Russell to sit with the secret subcommittee the following year, wh…
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mind, quote, to trigger the domestic outcry, unquote. Senators Eugene McCarthy and Frank Church, along with the Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield, deplored the escalation. By February 25th, Symington, with Mansfield and Charles Mattias,…
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Both argued that oversight had become necessary. Blackstock viewed controls as helping legitimate intelligence, part of a process to counteract the dangers of blowback from these activities. Congress had its own concerns, and some of its me…
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McCarthy introduced legislation for several years running. His best chance came in 66 on the heels of the time series. Mike Mansfield, the Senate majority leader, summoned top legislatures to discuss the bill in that late May. The legislati…
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The strategy worked out in meetings and phone calls between McPherson and Senator Russell involved watering down McCarthy's resolution, which lost its provision for a staff and a budget and action by a certain date and became merely an addi…
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Russell came out strongly against the bill, and once Russell and McPherson determined that they had the votes to defeat it, they insisted on bringing it up for a vote. When Dirksen's Republican minority put the weight Russell threw into the…
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with the secret subcommittee the following year when the CIA went to Capitol Hill for a detailed presentation on Laos. Richard Helms later became a good friend of Senator Eugene McCarthy. Following this episode, the CIA's contact with Congr…
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Bobby Kennedy, the father of 10 children with an 11th on the way, was terribly aware of the risk he was taking. But notwithstanding the youthful euphoria around Senator Eugene McCarthy's children's crusade for president, there was no politi…
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his reelection bid. But there still was Johnson's surrogate, Hubert Humphrey, to contend with, as well as Nixon. Entering the campaign late, Kennedy threw himself into the primary race with determination, knowing that he was fighting an uph…
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He was the key pivot man in a sort of dump Lyndon Johnson movement that was first went for what I consider a CIA bait divider candidate, namely Eugene McCarthy. Those children were too damn clean for Gene, if you know what I agency mean, Co…