Word: lowenstein
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...reclaim the country, not abandon it." Allard K. Lowenstein, former congressman from Brooklyn, told a group of 60 people Monday night in the Winthrop House Junior Common Room...
...Four years ago Nixon said that one who had four years to end the war and didn't, should not be President of the U.S.," Lowenstein said, "I don't want to be cynical, but I don't think there will be peace before the November presidential election...
...Lowenstein also criticized the narrow focus of the national media and the indifference of black and Puerto Rican communities toward McGovern...
Former Congressman Al Lowenstein will speak Monday 10 p.m. in the Winthrop JCR on "Nixton's Peace Plan, the fourth Anniversary...
McGovern turned Lowenstein down, with misgivings. He was up for re-election to the Senate in 1968, and he decided that keeping his Senate seat was more important to the antiwar cause than a hopeless fling at the presidency. Following McGovern's advice, Lowenstein turned to Eugene McCarthy of Minnesota; Robert Kennedy jumped in after McCarthy showed strongly against Johnson in the New Hampshire primary. After Kennedy was shot in California, McGovern pondered and finally announced for President 16 days before the Chicago convention. He wanted to be a rallying point for the pro-Kennedy remnant that could...