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That was in 1966, when Weltner was known as one of the South's leading moderates, a man who had voted against the Civil Rights Act of 1964 the first time around, changed his mind and voted for the final version, and was reelected. He was assigned to the House Un-American Activities Committee and then startled its members by calling for an investigation of the Ku Klux Klan...
Currently, Weltner is spending a month at Harvard as a Visiting Fellow at the Institute of Politics...
Young and handsome of aristocratic birth, Weltner has managed to combine Southern courtliness with a Northern education (Columbia Law School) and temperment...
impressed by Weltner's dramatic announcement were the editorial writers of the New York Times who called him a "candidate of conscience." They urged his constituents to write in his name that November...
...Weltner was soundly beaten by Republican Fletcher Thompson when he tried to win back his old Fifth District seat in 1968. He decided against running again in 1970, and the Democratic nomination went to Rev. Andrew Young, a former aide to Martin Luther King who lost to Thompson by an even wider margin last November...