Democrats: Unforeseen Eugene

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*Who calls himself "the family mute" because he alone declines to make speeches for Daddy. The other three McCarthy children: Ellen, 20, who graduates next year from Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service; Mary, 18, who took leave from Radcliffe to campaign for her father; Margaret, 12, a seventh-grader in the Catholic Stone Ridge school in Maryland, whom McCarthy calls his "secret weapon." Says he: "I'm going to bring her on at the right time. She's been thinking and not saying very much."