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...figures this time are not of the President's party and thus will have no leverage on the nominating process. The main speakers at Providence were Senators Edmund Muskie and Birch Bayh, contenders for the Democratic nomination. The chief organizer is former New York Congressman Allard Lowenstein, now president of the liberal Americans for Democratic Action. Democrats, of course, are heartily in favor of any anti-Nixon effort...
...rallies so far have been New York's Charles Goodell, who has cause for carrying a grudge against Nixon since the White House helped knock him out of the Senate last year, and Michigan Congressman Donald Riegle. He is a close friend of both McCloskey and Lowenstein, and the three often socialized in Washington before Lowenstein was defeated for re-election to Congress in November. McCloskey seems wholly sincere in his vow to oppose Nixon if no other Republican will. Drawing mainly on their own Congressional staffs, McCloskey and Riegle have opened a small campaign headquarters in Washington...
...other issue on which Rizzo capitalized was Green's campaign. During the last week or so, Green brought in outside liberals to support his candidacy. Such Congressmen as Father Drinan and Abner Mikva came, as did Senator John Tunney of California. Allard Lowenstein and Ramsey Clark endorsed Green. So did Ted Kennedy. ("The Green family and the Kennedy family have always been very close," Teddy said in TV spots.) But Rizzo told the voters that he didn't need outside help, and that they didn't either...
...rally was sponsored by Citizens for Alternatives Now (CAN), a bi-partisan coalition of Rhode Island labor leaders, businessmen, students and educators. Allard Lowenstein, the former New York Congressman who was one of the architects of the "dump Johnson" movement in 1968, was an advisor to the group...
...Lowenstein hopes that today's rally was but the first in a series of "Dump Nixon" rallies across the country...