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Eugene McCarthy, junior senator from Minnesota was the first active anti-war candidate. He was so successful in the early primaries that the incumbent president, Lyndon Johnson, dropped out of the race and Sen. Robert Kennedy from NY became another anti-war candidate, more or less.

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