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==Personal life== McCarthy and his wife, [[Abigail McCarthy|Abigail Quigley McCarthy]], had five children.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/2001/02/03/abigail-mccarthy-dies-at-85/12869c80-e2b2-4d49-ba07-77f7a6143928/l |title=Abigail McCarthy Dies at 85 |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |date=February 3, 2001 |access-date=April 24, 2023}}</ref> In 1969, McCarthy separated from his wife after 24 years of marriage, but they never divorced. The children stayed with their mother after the separation.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wMqSzTPXl7QC&q=abigail|title=Eugene McCarthy: The Rise and Fall of Postwar American Liberalism|last=Sandbrook|first=Dominic|date=December 18, 2007|publisher=Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group|isbn=9780307425775|language=en}}</ref> According to McCarthy biographer [[Dominic Sandbrook]], McCarthy had a romantic relationship with CBS News correspondent [[Marya McLaughlin]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1998/09/16/classified/paid-notice-deaths-mclaughlin-marya.html |title=Paid Notice: Deaths MCLAUGHLIN, MARYA - The New York Times |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=September 16, 1998 |access-date=June 15, 2017}}</ref> that lasted until McLaughlin's death in 1998.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/marya-mclaughlin-dead-at-68/|website=CBSNews.com|date=September 16, 1998|title=Marya McLaughlin Dead At 68|access-date=January 29, 2016}}</ref> McCarthy's niece Mary Beth was married to folk singer [[Peter Yarrow]].<ref name=yarrowfamily>{{cite news|url=https://people.com/peter-yarrow-dead-age-86-bladder-cancer-8770615|title=Peter Yarrow, Grammy-Winning Musician of Peter, Paul and Mary Fame, Dies at 86|first=Rachel|last=DeSantis|publisher=People|date=January 7, 2025|accessdate=January 7, 2025}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/jan/07/peter-yarrow-of-folk-trio-peter-paul-and-mary-dies-aged-86|title= Peter Yarrow of folk trio Peter, Paul and Mary dies aged 86|first=Laura|last=Stapes|work=The Guardian|date=January 7, 2025|accessdate=January 7, 2025}}</ref>
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