Tony Parisi, Jeanne and I actually saw him in the spring of 1968 at Seton Hall University. Was anyone else there that day? I remember being in the parking lot outside the old Walsh auditorium. The only other presidential candiates I saw were Kennedy outside the Mosque Theater November 1960 and George Wallace at Military Park July of 1968.

I didn't see McCarthy but I remember we held an election at Essex Catholic and George Wallace won by a landslide .....Nixon came in second....said something interesting about the Eagles student body

In the spring of 1968 I was a graduate student at Seton Hall, not long out of the army and back from Vietnam, and still serving as a first lieutenant in the reserves. After spending a year there, I had come to the conclusion that Vietnam was fast becoming a deadly fiasco, and the combat deaths of several of my college classmates reinforced that opinion. Still, I felt people like McCarthy and what appeared to me to be his self indulgent, self righteous rich kids' children's crusade were in it for their own self image, and cared not about the soldiers who were bearing the brunt of the war, and that most people here went about their business as if nothing was going on. While I would not hesitate to tell anyone my opinion on the war, and why I felt that way, I pretty much let politics pass by that spring. McCarthy came and went, and I ignored him.

I think I recall that mock election as well, as I was teaching history at Essex Catholic in the fall of 1968. It seemed to me at the time that the student body was just being contrary to shock people by voting for Wallace. Maybe I was wrong, but that's what I felt.