Word: mcgoverns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Poverty Law Center in Montgomery the next year, and established himself as one of the region's leading civil rights attorneys. He filed suits that forced the hiring of black state troopers in Alabama, integrated the Montgomery Y.M.C.A., and generally discomfited the Establishment. In 1972 he helped George McGovern organize a spectacularly successful mail appeal for contributions...
...including Lyndon Johnson, Hubert Humphrey and George McGovern. Manatt too has ambitions: his target is appointment to a top government job or election to office within the next five years...
...economics and management at M.I.T. since he was 33. Montana-born, educated at Williams, Oxford (as a Rhodes scholar) and Harvard, Thurow was a staffer for the Council of Economic Advisers during the opening shots of Lyndon Johnson's War on Poverty. As a member of George McGovern's 1972 Cambridge brain trust, he proposed a potent inheritance tax as a step toward redistributing the 45% of the wealth held by 2.5% of the U.S. population. That and other such programs stirred a row, says Thurow, because "our society...
...also leader of the state's second largest Democratic county organization. His election to the Queens County post in 1971 elicited congratulatory phone calls from a gaggle of presidential hopefuls. Although he opposes busing and led a pro-Viet Nam parade in 1965, the unpredictable Troy endorsed George McGovern In 1972-probably just to stymie the ambitions of his bete noire, John Lindsay. A Fordham-educated lawyer who has proved expert at traditional back-room gambits, he is the son of a retired local judge who was, he says, "very independent and a pain to everybody -so I guess...
...youngest person on the list is Patrick Caddell '72, who acted as George McGovern's pollster in the 1972 presidential campaign and is currently a partner in Cambridge Survey Research...