Private Life
He and his wife had five children, Christopher Joseph McCarthy (April 30, 1940 – April 30, 1940), Eleanor McCarthy Howell (born October 30, 1947), Mary Abagail McCarthy (April 29, 1949 – July 28, 1990), Michael Benet McCarthy (born April 5, 1952) and Margaret Alice McCarthy Brown (born July 17, 1956).
In 1969, McCarthy left his wife, Abigail, after 24 years of marriage, but the two never divorced. McCarthy was rumored to be having a long-term affair with prominent columnist and journalist Shana Alexander. However, according to Dominic Sandbrook's recent McCarthy biography, it was the late CBS News correspondent Marya McLaughlin with whom McCarthy was actually involved, in a long-term relationship that lasted until McLaughlin's death in 1998.
After leaving the Senate in 1971, McCarthy became a senior editor at Harcourt Brace Jovanovich Publishing and a syndicated newspaper columnist.
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