Word: popkin
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Arlene R. Popkin '68, senior trial counsel for the Legal And Society of Westchester Country, N.Y., says she was active in the civil rights movements before coming to college. And once at Harvard, she also protested the war, which she blames in large part on President Lyndon B. Johnson...
...Vietnam was a creature of Johnson's ego in a lot of people's views," Popkin says...
...Popkin says she joined the Young Democrats Club with the intention of turning what was then the largest organization on campus into a tool of the anti-war movement. Their main goal was to dump Johnson, and she helped send more than 400 students from Harvard and Radcliffe to work during the primaries...
...Harvard-Radcliffe Young Democrats had more to do with the [Minnesota Sen. Eugene] McCarthy campaign than any other institution that was available," Popkin says...