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...McNamara went to Cambridge to deliver the first lecture at Harvard's new Kennedy Institute of Politics. The 350 members of the Harvard S.D.S. decided that this would be an ideal time for a debate between McNamara and an eloquent spokesman they had brought to the campus, Robert Scheer, an editor of Ramparts magazine and an unsuccessful anti-war congressional candidate. Institute officials quashed the proposal, and McNamara spoke for three hours in Quincy House to 15 students at a lunch and a random selection of 50 at a seminar. He urged students to work for civil rights rather...
...Francisco newspapers called Scheer's campaign the "Children's Crusade." He says there's some truth to that: "I had my opponent's nephew working for me." But he complains that "people shouldn't dismiss me that easily. Radicals were once considered dangerous, you know, and then for a long time, they were thought just plain ineffectual. My campaign proves that's not true. When people see the returns Tuesday -- and Brown loses -- they'll realize how important radicals...
...Scheer predicted Brown would lose because "he decided California voters were racists and maniacs and ran his campaign that way." In doing so, Brown sacrificed the support of the radicals and the middle-class liberals of the California Democratic Council. "We were his workers, you know, and he never thought he could lose us, no matter what he did. He was convinced we wouldn't vote for Reagan, and so he moved further and further right...
...What Scheer and other leftists did, of course, was decide to boycott the election. Even CDC members refused to work in the Brown campaign. "Now no Democrat will ever again take us for granted," Scheer contends. "They'll have to make concessions to us. We'll have more of a machine than the pros when Brown loses...
...Scheer and the rest of the California Conference for New Politics -- part of the national movement -- want to test their theory by running a candidate for Thomas Kuchel's Senate seat in 1968. Whether the candidate will be Scheer himself or Simon Casady, the ousted CDC president, has not been determined. Scheer says he might also like another crack at Jeffrey Cohelan's House seat...