Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it's important.

—Eugene McCarthy

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Eugene Joseph McCarthy (March 29, 1916 – December 10, 2005) was an American politician, writer, and academic who represented Minnesota in both houses of the United States Congress for over 22 years, first in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1949 to 1959, then in the U.S. Senate from 1959...

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