As Dr. Schaff reported a few days ago, Eugene McCarthy has died. Strangely enough, the Argus's main political reporter, David Kranz, failed to note his death in his column today. A strange occurrence since Kranz had worked with McCarthy in the past. From the South Dakota Politics archives:
Kranz’s December 13, 1987 Argus column is completely dedicated to reviewing how he worked for the McCarthy campaign in the crucial presidential primary in Wisconsin 20 years before:
It was the McCarthy campaign that pushed my “politically active” button for the first time. … By March of 1968, we, the residents of 1107 4th St., decided to go into action. … So five of us gathered one morning in March to make our contribution—a few days in Wisconsin ringing doorbells and making phone calls—spreading the word. … I didn’t get a grade for that mission in Marshfield[where the McCarthy campaign sent Kranz], but the Sunday night we arrive back in Brookings, President Johnson went on National television. At the close of his address he told the world: “I shall not seek, nor will I accept the nomination of my party for president of the United States.” We five cheered this announcement, hoping this would mean the end of the war. We gave ourselves A’s for forcing the hand of this powerful man.
Well, good for Kranz. He was part of the historic McCarthy insurgency of 1968. But bad for Beck, who maintained in his recent column attacking blogs for making up “facts” that Kranz had nothing to do with the McCarthy campaign.
Read the whole thing.
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