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...Hampton helps us," Lowenstein said Tuesday afternoon, sipping a Coke in a luncheonette. "Hampton helps, like Nixon helps and Agnew helps. Republicans are really useful for helping Democrats...
Hampton's headquarters in Baldwin, L.I., are right across the street from the Lowenstein storefront, but the people inside don't even look the same. Inside Lowenstein's storefront, phones are ringing, people are shouting, women are serving coffee. High school kids are running out to polling places to distribute Lowenstein-O'Dwyer literature. Among the campaign posters on the walls are charts and maps of the district...
During the campaign, Hampton also accused Lowenstein of advocating the legalization of marijuana, although Lowenstein did not in fact do so. Hampton proposed the death penalty for dealers, and life imprisonment for use of the drug, and his supporters often went down to the Lowenstein headquarters in Rockville Centre and asked students working there, "Do you really smoke...
...Lowenstein, commenting on Hampton's position, said, "I oppose the death penalty." He laughed...
...contrast, Lowenstein ran his campaign with storefronts in all Fifth District towns, manned mostly by Jewish mothers and high school students. The workers, canvassing their neighborhoods, opposed Hampton on every point. They called for the unconditional cessation of the bombing of North Vietnam and the formation of a representative coalition government in South Vietnam. Lowenstein himself denounced the war as "the greatest tragedy of American foreign policy in many decades...