Word: lowenstein
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Lowenstein echoed the feelings of many of his constituents: "I didn't call the po lice because I was busy, because re porting takes so much time, and be cause it is so hard to get the police interested...
Along with other founders of the dump-Johnson movement, Lowenstein helped launch the New Democratic Coalition (NDC) following this summer's bloodbath in Chicago. Although a successor to the McCarthy movement, the NDC is seeking a wider, more impressive base of support than McCarthy ever did, and its goal is nothing less than the take-over of the Democratic Party...
...anti-Administration movement suffered in 1968 because it had few leaders who were either recognized by the press or who had much political experience. Both of these deficiencies have been met to a limited extent. Names like Allard Lowenstein, Julian Bond, John Gilligan, and Don Peterson are now both well-known and respected in the Washington press corps...
...Lowenstein's plan to try to dump President Johnson was received as the mad plan of a New York professor-lawyer during the fall of 1967; he is now a Congressman from Long Island whom most "humanist liberals" and experienced political observers like David Halberstam regard as a responsible national leader...
...born in the anger of the past year's outrages by the regular Democrats. If they can set up an effective national organization, which they appear to be doing, then the money and political expertise which the different state organizations need can be readily provided. With intelligent leaders like Lowenstein, Bond, Michtel Harrington, Adam Walensky, and the Rev. Channing Phillips, the NDC appears to have a wealth of talent unequaled in past American political insurgencies...