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...major spokesman for populism today, in addition to Senator McGovern, are Jeff Greenfield and Jack Newfield. They have produced a statement--A Populist Manifesto--which outlines most of the positions McGovern articulated early in his campaign. The book includes a set of policy prescriptions, but it fails to deal with the two key issues directly related to race-welfare and busing. McGovern has suffered from a similar inability to develop solid positions on these issues...
...their book. Newfield and Greenfield totally dodge the welfare question. Greenfield explained in an interview last week that he felt McGovern should have come out against any form of guaranteed annual income. "He should have told the American people that the Moynihan Family Assistance Plan will put more people on the welfare rolls than have ever been on them at any time in history. McGovern should say that he will work to give every able-bodied American...
...this country are white. Because of legislation related to the War on Poverty discriminate against the white poor, whites have become hostile to most social legislation. Welfare reform must be presented so that whites as well as blacks will feel that they are going to benefit from it. Newfield and Greenfield have shown that legislation must be initiated along class lines, rather than racial ones, but unless populists confront the controversial issue directly, their movement will be weakened...
...Talese. Tom Wolfe, Renata Adler, James Aronson, David Halberstam, Dick Schaap, J. Anthony Lukas, Nat Hentoff, Jack Anderson, Martin Nolan, Joe McGinniss, Charles Goodell, Studs Terkel, Jimmy Breslin, Murray Kempton, Pete Hamill, Nora Ephron, Blair Clark, Erwin Krasnow, Leonard Schecter, Jim Bouton, Charlotte Curtis, Gloria Steinem, Jack Newfield, I.F. Stone, and Seymour Hersh. Noon-8, April 23 and 10-8, April 24. Martin Luther King Labor Center, 310 W. 43 St., New York. Open to the public and free. (Get there early-it'll probably be crowded...
...student crusade of the 1960s, though it raised many valid issues, seems to have been something of an indulgence. It was too remote from the ordinary citizen; it had too high a moral opinion of itself and too low a regard for the morals of others. Writer-Activist Jack Newfield, who wrote approvingly of the exclusive radicals of the '60s in his book A Prophetic Minority, takes an altered view in a recently published sequel, A Populist Manifesto, co-authored by Jeff Greenfield, a former Robert Kennedy aide. The Manifesto argues that reform is possible only if poor...