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Robert S. Strauss, a wealthy Texan who now heads the Party's fund-raising efforts, wants Gailbraith removed from the Party's Policy Council...
...Strauss took umbrage at a book by Galbraith, Who Needs the Democrats? published early this summer, in which Galbraith suggested that liberal Democrats allow the Republicans to organize the House of Representatives and name the committee chairmen there in order to break the power of conservative Democratic congressmen such as Rep. L. Mendel Rivers...
...Strauss-who was a strong backer of Bensen's campaign-then called for Galbraith's removal from the Policy Council, an advisory body appointed last year by the current National Chairman, Sen. Fred Harris (D-Okla.), The group is chaired by Hubert H. Humphrey, and its members include Harris, Sen. Edmund Muskie (D-Me.), Averell Harriman, Morris Abram, and Sen. Walter F. Mondale (D-Minn.)-all of whom are generally considered members of the Party's liberal wing...
Galbraith on Friday called Strauss "one of the Dallas dropouts from the tax structure," adding, "I have the support of everyone North of the Mason-Dixon line...
...Strauss and his friends are dead on the national scene," he said. "If I had thought there was a way to get Strauss to smoke himself out like this, I would have done...