Remembering the hope
To many who were young, idealistic and antiwar in 1968, Eugene McCarthy (obituary, Dec. 11) gave hope. He was intelligent, wise and good. Many of us -- who in 2005 are quite a bit older, a bit jaded but still idealistic and antiwar -- cannot help wonder what this country and the world would be like if he had received the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination that year and had become president. Both would be safer than they are today. McCarthy changed our public and private universes and was quite a good poet too. He was unique, and I cried at his passing.
MARIANNE HART
Long Beach
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