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John Kenneth Galbraith, Paul M. Warburg Professor of Economics and national chairman of ADA, helped frame the final resolution, which Joseph L. Rauh Jr., a Washington lawyer, originally drafted...
Washington attorney Joe Rauh, who acted as counsel for Negro challengers in '64, is taking a leading hand in behind-the-scenes work to put together the challenges in both states. In Alabama, the likely organizers include former state attorney general Richmond Flowers, who won the lasting love of local Negroes by seeking their votes in his unsuccessful gubernatorial fight against Lurleen Wallace. He will be working closely with leaders of the only state-wide Negro political organization, which is dedicated to supporting the national party...
...Mississippi situation is more muddled. There is now a 50-50 chance that there will be two challenging delegations from the state. Lawrence Guyot, head of the militant Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party which staged the '64 challenge, has vowed to send another mostly Negro delegation to Chicago. Rauh, however, is working this time with Negroes and white moderates associated mainly with the Mississippi Young Democrates and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People...
...Other Democratic Party workers are trying to put on the pressure. A New York-based group called Citizens for Kennedy-Fulbright released a letter, signed by 50 former Democratic Convention delegates, asking the President not to seek re-election because of antiwar sentiment within the party. Washington Attorney Joseph Rauh, vice chairman of the Americans for Democratic Action, announced that he is starting a personal campaign aimed not at "dumping Johnson" but at writing a "peace plank" into the 1968 Democratic platform...
...understand why Kennedy made 1961 legislation weak," Rauh said, were threntened with a filibustor. in 1965 Byrd's asthma would keep from filibustering more than 20 minutes. We begged the attorney to make this bill as good as the President's speech but he wouldn...