Word: hydc
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Peterson rejoins that while his candidate Christopher T. Bayley '60 has been with the club for three years and already holds office, White only three weeks ago resigned a committee post in the HYDC. He also criticizes White severely for his role in the "now infamous coup in the Committee to Study Disarmament...
Invitation from HYDC...
Truman said in his letter that he was also "considering an invitation from the Harvard Young Democratic Club," but no other commitments have been made other than that he will definitely speak here. Jay F. Leary '60, Secretary of the HYDC, said he had invited Truman to speak to that organization but that he had not yet received a reply from...
Addressing a meeting sponsored by the HYDC freshmen, Freidel declared that the Democratic Party faces a choice between the "old boys" of the party and a dynamic liberal group. "Most of the Democrats who won elections in November were not very inspiring," he said, adding that the "old boys" are the loyal party workers who sustained the Democrats through the lean years. These men, Freidel claimed, "see Congress as a system of loyalties," and he asked whether this was the "sort of man you want to see as President...
...response to a question put by Derek T. Winans '60, President Emeritus of the HYDC, Freidel claimed that "institutional" reform" is the answer. Citing California as an example, Freidel said that the enthusiasts, organized into local Democratic Clubs, had "worked to capture existing party machinery...