Word: clubs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Counsel Patrick Hallinan, at club headquarters in San Francisco, denied that the clubs were either Communist-led or organized, calling the Justice Department's citation "part and parcel of the policies of the Johnson Administration to suppress and silence critics of its dirty little war in Viet Nam." That at least was a new refrain for the old unchanging tune...
...year and a half before Weiner, was evidently such a leader. The most frequent description of him is "an animal--he got people to work for him through the brute force of his personality." Under Ross, the organization was transformed from a small, tightly knit, party-oriented, penniless club into what observors call "a three ring circus." Party politics were placed second to building membership and raising money. Through a highly-successful speakers program Ross succeeded in doing both. But, according to one former executive the club became so dependent on Ross's personality that when his term was over...
Weiner didn't fill it; he didn't attempt to. He sees himself as having run an institutionalized, intellectual organization, admitting that maybe a circus is what Young Dems needs to camouflage, if not to cure, its anemia. He speaks for himself as a transitional leader, presiding over the club as it adapted itself to its new size and bank account. The transition, he implies, is up to the new president, Larry Seidman, to define and complete...
...leader, than Pete Weiner was. He is an idealist; he shuns the word because it is a political handicap, and so is a self-conscious idealist, but he is an idealist nonetheless. If Young Dems is ever to make a place for itself in Harvard student politics, the club must first, he maintains, define exactly what it is both to itself and to the rest of the college. That is what the club has failed to do in the past, and that, at least, is what Seidman hopes to do now. "It's a matter of leading," he says. "Just...
...Seidman is successful, his club would be unrecognizable to the Democratic Party ideologues who inhabited the pre-Ross organization...