FBI Watched McCarthy Anti-Hoover Effort

When Eugene McCarthy ran for president in 1968, he pledged to fire J. Edgar Hoover, the FBI director who had outlasted presidents from Calvin Coolidge to John F. Kennedy.

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The Democratic Party: A Monolith It Is Not

As President Obama tries to shepherd his legislative agenda through a Democratically-controlled U.S. Congress, he is learning what an inimical cohabitation the Democratic Party really is.

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So traumatic was the 1968 presidential campaign that a mere timeline can't recapture the feel of it.� And in the end it was the candidate of conservatism and stability, Republican Richard Nixon, who was elected president.

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The past is not necessarily prologue. Yet 40 years later, the Democratic Party faces the possibility of another self-defeating split caused by the selection of the less-popular presidential candidate by unelected convention delegates.

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