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...Side (coming very close to winning); started one of the first groups to protest the war during the late summer of 1965 (Americans for a Reappraisal of Far Eastern Policy); and has been elected to the national board of SANE, the vice chairmanship of the Americans for Democratic Action (ADA), the board of the Rev. Martin Luther King's Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), and now the co-chairmanship of the Conference of Concerned Democrats. He is considered a prime candidate, according to national columnist James Weschler of the New York Post, for a seat in Congress or the Democratic...

Author: By Robert M. Krim, | Title: Lowenstein: The Making of a Liberal 1968 | 1/8/1968 | See Source »

...Minnesota Senator along with John Kenneth Galbraith, national chairman of the Americans for Democratic Action (ADA), will address a Y.D. Convention banquet Saturday evening. McCarthy could announce according to several reliable sources close to the Senator, that he will challenge President Johnson for the 1968 Democratic Presidential Nomination...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: McCarthy to Speak in Cambridge; May Announce Presidential Plans | 11/9/1967 | See Source »

Allport is survived by his wife, Ada, a son, Dr. Robert Allport, who is a physician in California, and three grandchildren. Services will be held at 2 p.m. Wednesday in Christ Church, Cambridge, with burial to follow

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Allport, 69, Dies; Led in Psychology | 10/10/1967 | See Source »

...first public speech at Harvard since assuming the ADA post, Galbraith told an audience of Harvard-Radcliffe Young Democrats at Burr Hall that they should work to elect a slate of peace delegates to next summer's Democratic National Convention in Chicago...

Author: By Andrew Jamison, | Title: J K Galbraith Blasts LBJ's Asian Policy, Calls for Peace Slate | 10/10/1967 | See Source »

...this, as I say, is largely a matter of taste and condition. Such would include, almost without exception, the condition of anyone who in this day is a member of Americans for Democratic Action. If there are exceptions, I do not know of them: to be a member of ADA is to be a person who has shared considerably in the "rewards" of American life, and who can look forward to continued sharing and, if anything, on more favorable terms. There are doubtless those among us so ungrateful, or so idealistic, as to wish or to be willing to give...

Author: By Daniel P. Moynihan, | Title: Myths and Demands of Liberal Politics | 9/30/1967 | See Source »

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