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LAIER when Robert Kennedy decided to join the fray, he would ask Lowenstein to shift to his camp. Torn between friendship and respect for Kennedy and his commitment to back McCarthy, Lowenstein said no Kennedy retreated to the back of the bus on which the group was riding, and scribbled Lowenstein a note. "For A1, who knew the lesson of Emerson and taught it to the rest of us," it read. "They did not yet see ... that if a single man plant himself on his convictions and then abide, the huge world will come round to him. From his friend...
...could name the trouble place and learn that Lowenstein had been there," recalls James A. Wechsler. He turned up in Saigon in 1967 to observe the country's allegedly "free" elections. He was in Chicago in 1968 speaking out against police brutality to protesters outside the Democratic National Convention. He was in Prague in 1969 on the first anniversary of the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia ("If the Red Army was really sent in at the request of the Czech people," he explained, "the anniversary of their arrival would be quite a festive occasion. I decided...
...Lowenstein argued early that U.S. military involvement in Vietnam was "immoral" and would only hurt America's cause and prestige abroad. He spoke against the commitment of American troops on college campuses, on "Meet the Press," and on the floor of the House of Representatives. When it became evident that the Johnson Administration had no intention of reversing its policy of escalation. Lowenstein took on the White House itself. The only way to change the Vietnam policy was to change the President, he reasoned...
...organized the New York Coalition for a Democratic Alternative, later to be dubbed the "Dump Johnson" movement. Colleagues warned him that Johnson was not vulnerable to intra-party attack, but Lowenstein thought otherwise. He started the movement before he even had a candidate lined up for 1968. First he asked his old friend Robert Kennedy to oppose the President Kennedy asked for time to think it over...
Most liberal activists wanted for the Senator to make a move. If he chose to run, they would support him. If he chose not to enter the face, they would forgo the attempt to unseat the President. But "here Lowenstein differed" writes Halberstam. "He was determined to go ahead whether or not Kennedy made the race." After an unsuccessful appeal to George McGovern, Lowenstein approached Eugene McCarthy a liberal Senator from Minnesota. McCarthy agreed to head the alternative ticket, and Lowenstein threw his energy into the campaign...