Master list of Nixon political opponents
Encyclopedia
A master list of Nixon political opponents was compiled to supplement the original Nixon's Enemies List
Nixon's Enemies List
Nixon’s Enemies List is the informal name of what started as a list of President of the United States Richard Nixon’s major political opponents compiled by Charles Colson, written by George T. Bell , and sent in memorandum form to John Dean on September 9, 1971...

 of 20 key people considered opponents of President
President of the United States
The President of the United States of America is the head of state and head of government of the United States. The president leads the executive branch of the federal government and is the commander-in-chief of the United States Armed Forces....

 Richard Nixon
Richard Nixon
Richard Milhous Nixon was the 37th President of the United States, serving from 1969 to 1974. The only president to resign the office, Nixon had previously served as a US representative and senator from California and as the 36th Vice President of the United States from 1953 to 1961 under...

. The master list was compiled by Charles Colson
Charles Colson
Charles Wendell "Chuck" Colson is a Christian leader, cultural commentator, and former Special Counsel for President Richard Nixon from 1969 to 1973....

's office and sent in memorandum
Memorandum
A memorandum is from the Latin verbal phrase memorandum est, the gerundive form of the verb memoro, "to mention, call to mind, recount, relate", which means "It must be remembered ..."...

 form to John Dean
John Dean
John Wesley Dean III is an American lawyer who served as White House Counsel to United States President Richard Nixon from July 1970 until April 1973. In this position, he became deeply involved in events leading up to the Watergate burglaries and the subsequent Watergate scandal cover-up...

. Dean later provided this updated "master list" of political opponents to the Senate Watergate Committee. The original list split out "Black Congressmen," listing "all of the Black congressmen [and women]."

Response

Carol Channing
Carol Channing
Carol Elaine Channing is an American singer, actress, and comedienne. She is the recipient of three Tony Awards , a Golden Globe and an Oscar nomination...

 stated that inclusion on the list was her greatest accomplishment. Talk show host and journalist Lou Gordon, who was also on the list, considered his inclusion to be a "badge of honor".

In The Great Shark Hunt
The Great Shark Hunt
The Great Shark Hunt is a book by Hunter S. Thompson. Originally published in 1979 as Gonzo Papers, Vol. 1: The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time, the book is a roughly 600-page collection of Thompson's essays from 1956 to the end of the 1970s, following the rise of the author's...

, Hunter S. Thompson
Hunter S. Thompson
Hunter Stockton Thompson was an American journalist and author who wrote The Rum Diary , Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72 .He is credited as the creator of Gonzo journalism, a style of reporting where reporters involve themselves in the action to...

 expresses disappointment in not having been included on the list.

Carl Djerassi
Carl Djerassi
Carl Djerassi is an Austrian-American chemist, novelist, and playwright best known for his contribution to the development of the first oral contraceptive pill . Djerassi is emeritus professor of chemistry at Stanford University.He participated in the invention in 1951, together with Mexican Luis E...

's autobiography The Pill, Pigmy Chimps, and Degas' Horse states that President Nixon awarded him the National Medal of Science
National Medal of Science
The National Medal of Science is an honor bestowed by the President of the United States to individuals in science and engineering who have made important contributions to the advancement of knowledge in the fields of behavioral and social sciences, biology, chemistry, engineering, mathematics and...

 when he was on the Enemies List. He learned this from an article in The San Francisco Examiner
The San Francisco Examiner
The San Francisco Examiner is a U.S. daily newspaper. It has been published continuously in San Francisco, California, since the late 19th century.-19th century:...

a few months later.

Senators

  • Birch Bayh
    Birch Bayh
    Birch Evans Bayh II is a former United States Senator from Indiana, having served from 1963 to 1981. He was a candidate for the Democratic nomination for president in the 1976 election, but lost to Jimmy Carter. He is the father of former Indiana Governor and former U.S. Senator Evan Bayh.-Life...

  • J. W. Fulbright
    J. William Fulbright
    James William Fulbright was a United States Senator representing Arkansas from 1945 to 1975.Fulbright was a Southern Democrat and a staunch multilateralist who supported the creation of the United Nations and the longest serving chairman in the history of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee...

  • Fred R. Harris
    Fred R. Harris
    Fred Roy Harris is a former Democratic United States Senator from the state of Oklahoma. He served from 1964 until 1973.-Biography:...

  • Harold Hughes
    Harold Hughes
    Harold Everett Hughes was the 36th Governor of Iowa from 1963 until 1969; he had been a Republican earlier in his life. He also served as a Democratic United States Senator from 1969 until 1975.-Background:...


  • Edward M. Kennedy
    Ted Kennedy
    Edward Moore "Ted" Kennedy was a United States Senator from Massachusetts and a member of the Democratic Party. Serving almost 47 years, he was the second most senior member of the Senate when he died and is the fourth-longest-serving senator in United States history...

  • George McGovern
    George McGovern
    George Stanley McGovern is an historian, author, and former U.S. Representative, U.S. Senator, and the Democratic Party nominee in the 1972 presidential election....

  • Walter Mondale
    Walter Mondale
    Walter Frederick "Fritz" Mondale is an American Democratic Party politician, who served as the 42nd Vice President of the United States , under President Jimmy Carter, and as a United States Senator for Minnesota...


  • Edmund Muskie
    Edmund Muskie
    Edmund Sixtus "Ed" Muskie was an American politician from Rumford, Maine. He served as Governor of Maine from 1955 to 1959, as a member of the United States Senate from 1959 to 1980, and as Secretary of State under Jimmy Carter from 1980 to 1981...

  • Gaylord Nelson
    Gaylord Nelson
    Gaylord Anton Nelson was an American politician from Wisconsin who served as a United States Senator and governor. A Democrat, he was the principal founder of Earth Day.-Public service and leadership:...

  • William Proxmire
    William Proxmire
    Edward William Proxmire was an American politician. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as a United States Senator from Wisconsin from 1957 to 1989.-Personal life:...



Members of the House

  • Bella Abzug
    Bella Abzug
    Bella Savitsky Abzug was an American lawyer, Congresswoman, social activist and a leader of the Women's Movement. In 1971, Abzug joined other leading feminists such as Gloria Steinem and Betty Friedan to found the National Women's Political Caucus...

  • William R. Anderson
    William Anderson (naval officer)
    William Robert Anderson was an officer in the United States Navy, and a U.S. Representative from Tennessee from 1965 to 1973.-Early life and naval career:...


  • John Brademas
    John Brademas
    John Brademas is an American politician and educator originally from Indiana. He served as Majority Whip of the United States House of Representatives for the Democratic Party from 1977 to 1981 at the conclusion of a twenty-year career as a member of the United States House of Representatives...

  • Father Robert Drinan
    Robert Drinan
    Robert Frederick Drinan, S.J. was a Roman Catholic Jesuit priest, lawyer, human rights activist, and Democratic U.S. Representative from Massachusetts...


  • Robert Kastenmeier
    Robert Kastenmeier
    Robert William Kastenmeier is a United States politician. He represented Wisconsin in the United States House of Representatives from 1959 to 1991, and is a member of the Democratic Party.-Education:...

  • Wright Patman
    Wright Patman
    John William Wright Patman was a U.S. Congressman from Texas in Texas's 1st congressional district and chair of the United States House Committee on Banking and Currency .-Early life:...



Black Congressmen and Congresswomen

  • Shirley Chisholm
    Shirley Chisholm
    Shirley Anita St. Hill Chisholm was an American politician, educator, and author. She was a Congresswoman, representing New York's 12th Congressional District for seven terms from 1969 to 1983. In 1968, she became the first black woman elected to Congress...

  • William Clay
    Bill Clay
    William Lacy "Bill" Clay, Sr. is a politician from the state of Missouri. As Congressman from Missouri's First District, he represented portions of St. Louis in the U.S. House of Representatives for 32 years....

  • George Collins
    George W. Collins
    George Washington Collins was a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Illinois.Collins was born in Chicago, and served with the Army engineers in the South Pacific during World War II...

  • John Conyers
    John Conyers
    John Conyers, Jr. is the U.S. Representative for , serving since 1965 . He is a member of the Democratic Party...


  • Ronald Dellums
  • Charles Diggs
    Charles Diggs
    Charles Coles Diggs, Jr. was an African-American politician from the U.S. state of Michigan. Diggs was an early member of the civil rights movement, having been present at the murder trial of Emmett Till and elected the first chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus.Diggs resigned from the...

  • Augustus Hawkins
    Augustus F. Hawkins
    Augustus Freeman "Gus" Hawkins was a prominent African American Democratic Party politician and a figure in the history of Civil Rights and organized labor. He served as the first African American from California in the United States Congress, where he sponsored the Humphrey-Hawkins Full...

  • Ralph Metcalfe
    Ralph Metcalfe
    Ralph Harold Metcalfe was an African-American athlete and politician who came second to Jesse Owens in the 1936 Berlin Olympics. Metcalfe jointly held the world record for the 100 meter sprint. Metcalfe was known as the world’s fastest human from 1932 through 1934...


  • Robert N.C. Nix
    Robert N.C. Nix, Sr.
    Robert Nelson Cornelius Nix, Sr. was the first African American to represent Pennsylvania in the House of Representatives. The Robert N.C...

  • Parren Mitchell
    Parren Mitchell
    Parren James Mitchell , a Democrat, was a U.S. Congressman who represented the 7th congressional district of Maryland from January 3, 1971 to January 3, 1987. He was the first African-American elected to Congress from Maryland....

  • Charles Rangel
  • Louis Stokes
    Louis Stokes
    Louis Stokes is a Democratic politician from Ohio. He served in the United States House of Representatives....


Other politicians

  • John Lindsay
    John Lindsay
    John Vliet Lindsay was an American politician, lawyer and broadcaster who was a U.S. Congressman, Mayor of New York City, candidate for U.S...

    , mayor, New York City;

  • Eugene McCarthy
    Eugene McCarthy
    Eugene Joseph "Gene" McCarthy was an American politician, poet, and a long-time member of the United States Congress from Minnesota. He served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1949 to 1959 and the U.S. Senate from 1959 to 1971.In the 1968 presidential election, McCarthy was the first...

    , former U.S senator;

  • George Wallace
    George Wallace
    George Corley Wallace, Jr. was the 45th Governor of Alabama, serving four terms: 1963–1967, 1971–1979 and 1983–1987. "The most influential loser" in 20th-century U.S. politics, according to biographers Dan T. Carter and Stephan Lesher, he ran for U.S...

    , governor, Alabama.

  • Sargent Shriver
    Sargent Shriver
    Robert Sargent Shriver, Jr., known as Sargent Shriver, R. Sargent Shriver, or, from childhood, Sarge, was an American statesman and activist. As the husband of Eunice Kennedy Shriver, he was part of the Kennedy family, serving in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations...

    , former director of the Peace Corps
    Peace Corps
    The Peace Corps is an American volunteer program run by the United States Government, as well as a government agency of the same name. The mission of the Peace Corps includes three goals: providing technical assistance, helping people outside the United States to understand US culture, and helping...

     and 1972
    United States presidential election, 1972
    The United States presidential election of 1972 was the 47th quadrennial United States presidential election. It was held on November 7, 1972. The Democratic Party's nomination was eventually won by Senator George McGovern, who ran an anti-war campaign against incumbent Republican President Richard...

     Vice Presidential
    Vice President of the United States
    The Vice President of the United States is the holder of a public office created by the United States Constitution. The Vice President, together with the President of the United States, is indirectly elected by the people, through the Electoral College, to a four-year term...

     candidate

Organizations

  • Black Panthers
    Black Panther Party
    The Black Panther Party wasan African-American revolutionary leftist organization. It was active in the United States from 1966 until 1982....

    , Hughie Newton
    Huey P. Newton
    Huey Percy Newton was an American political and urban activist who, along with Bobby Seale, co-founded the Black Panther Party for Self Defense.-Early life:...

     [sic
    Sic
    Sic—generally inside square brackets, [sic], and occasionally parentheses, —when added just after a quote or reprinted text, indicates the passage appears exactly as in the original source...

    ]
  • Brookings Institution
    Brookings Institution
    The Brookings Institution is a nonprofit public policy organization based in Washington, D.C., in the United States. One of Washington's oldest think tanks, Brookings conducts research and education in the social sciences, primarily in economics, metropolitan policy, governance, foreign policy, and...

    , Lesley Gelb [sic
    Sic
    Sic—generally inside square brackets, [sic], and occasionally parentheses, —when added just after a quote or reprinted text, indicates the passage appears exactly as in the original source...

    ] and others
  • Business Executives Move for VN Peace
    Business Executives Move for Vietnam Peace
    Business Executives Move for Vietnam Peace was an organization opposed to the Vietnam War.In September 1967 a group of nearly one thousand businessmen formed a national committee opposing United States participation in the Vietnam War. Henry E...

    . Henry Niles, national chairman, Vincent McGee. executive director
  • Committee for an Effective Congress
    National Committee for an Effective Congress
    The National Committee for an Effective Congress is a political action committee founded by Eleanor Roosevelt in 1948. It is one of the America’s most politically active independent liberal groups, pooling contributions from across the country to help elect progressive candidates to Congress...

    . Russell Hemenway
  • Common Cause
    Common Cause
    Common Cause is a self-described nonpartisan, nonprofit lobby and advocacy organization. It was founded in 1970 by John W. Gardner, a Republican former cabinet secretary under Lyndon Johnson, as a "citizens' lobby" with a mission focused on making U.S. political institutions more open and...

    , John Gardner
    John W. Gardner
    John William Gardner, was Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare under President Lyndon Johnson. During World War II he served in the United States Marine Corps as a captain. In 1955 he became president of the Carnegie Corporation of New York and, concurrently, the Carnegie Foundation for...

    , Morton Halperin
    Morton Halperin
    Morton H. Halperin is an American expert on foreign policy and civil liberties. He served in the Johnson, Nixon, and Clinton administrations and in a number of roles with think tanks and universities such as the Council on Foreign Relations and Harvard University.- Early career :Halperin received...

    , Charles Goodell
    Charles Goodell
    Charles Ellsworth Goodell was a U.S. Representative and a Senator from New York, notable for coming into both offices under special circumstances following the deaths of his predecessors.-Early life and education:...

    , Walter Hickel
  • Congressional Black Caucus
    Congressional Black Caucus
    The Congressional Black Caucus is an organization representing the black members of the United States Congress. Membership is exclusive to blacks, and its chair in the 112th Congress is Representative Emanuel Cleaver of Missouri.-Aims:...


  • COPE
    AFL-CIO
    The American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations, commonly AFL–CIO, is a national trade union center, the largest federation of unions in the United States, made up of 56 national and international unions, together representing more than 11 million workers...

    , Alexander E Barkan
    Alexander Barkan
    Alexander E. Barkan was head of the AFL-CIO's Committee on Political Education from 1963 until 1982. During the Watergate hearings, it became known that Barkan was one of the original members of Nixon's Enemies List....

  • Council for a Livable World
    Council for a Livable World
    Council for a Livable World is a Washington, D.C.-based non-profit, advocacy organization dedicated to eliminating the U.S. arsenal of nuclear weapons...

    , Bernard T. Feld
    Bernard T. Feld
    Bernard T. Feld was a professor of physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He helped develop the atomic bomb, and later led an international movement among scientists to banish nuclear weapons....

    , pr idem: professor of physics. MIT
  • Farmers Union, NFO
    NFO
    NFO may refer to:*National Farmers Organization, a producerist movement founded in the United States in 1955*Naval Flight Officer in the United States Navy*New Fund Offer, a term used in mutual funds in India...

  • Institute of Policy study
    Institute for Policy Studies
    Institute for Policy Studies is a left-wing think tank based in Washington, D.C..It has been directed by John Cavanagh since 1998- History :...

     Richard Barnet
    Richard Barnet
    Richard Jackson Barnet was an American scholar-activist who co-founded the Institute for Policy Studies.-Early years:...

    , Marcus Raskin
    Marcus Raskin
    Marcus Raskin is a prominent American social critic, political activist, author, and philosopher, working for progressive social change in the United States....

  • National Economic Council, Inc.
    National Economic Council, Inc.
    National Economic Council, Inc. was a conservative American political organization. Their work landed them on the master list of Nixon political opponents.-References:...

  • National Education Association
    National Education Association
    The National Education Association is the largest professional organization and largest labor union in the United States, representing public school teachers and other support personnel, faculty and staffers at colleges and universities, retired educators, and college students preparing to become...

    , Sam M. Lambert
    Samuel M. Lambert
    Samuel M. Lambert was president of the National Education Association during the administration of Richard M. Nixon...

     president

  • National Student Association
    National Student Association
    The United States National Student Association, a confederation of American college and university student governments, was founded in 1947 at a conference at the University of Wisconsin. It established its first headquarters in Madison, not far from the U. of Wisconsin campus...

    , Charles Palmer
    Charles Palmer
    Charles Henry Palmer was an English cricketer, who played for Leicestershire and Worcestershire from 1938 to 1959. Palmer also played one Test match for England. He later went on to become a respected cricket administrator....

     president
  • National Welfare Rights Organization
    National Welfare Rights Organization
    The National Welfare Rights Organization was an American activist organization that fought for the welfare rights of people, especially women and children. The organization had four goals: adequate income, dignity, justice, and democratic participation. The group was active from 1966 to 1975...

    , George Wiley
    George Wiley
    George Alvin Wiley was an American chemist and civil rights leader.Wiley earned his undergraduate degree at the University of Rhode Island in 1953; received a doctorate in organic chemistry from Cornell University in 1957; fulfilled a six-month ROTC obligation as a first lieutenant in the United...

  • Potomac Associates
    Potomac Associates
    Potomac Associates is an American consortium of four independent non-partisan consulting firms engaged in research and policy consulting on substantive economic and legal issues in international trade, foreign investment, and economic development...

    , William Watts
    William Watts
    William Watts was chief of the Kasimbazar factory of the British East India Company. He lived in Bengal, and he was proficient in Bangla, Hindustani and Persian languages.-Career:...

  • SANE
    Peace Action
    Peace Action is a peace organization formed through the merger of The Committee for a SANE Nuclear Policy and the Nuclear Weapons Freeze Campaign...

    , Sanford Gottlieb
  • Southern Christian Leadership
    Southern Christian Leadership Conference
    The Southern Christian Leadership Conference is an African-American civil rights organization. SCLC was closely associated with its first president, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr...

    , Ralph Abernathy
    Ralph Abernathy
    Ralph David Abernathy, Sr. was a leader of the American Civil Rights Movement, a minister, and a close associate of Martin Luther King, Jr. in the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. Following King's assassination, Dr. Abernathy took up the leadership of the SCLC Poor People's Campaign and...

    ;
  • Third National Convocation on the Challenge of Building Peace
    National Convocation on the Challenge of Building Peace
    The National Convocation on the Challenge of Building Peace was an American organization formed in the late 1960s in response to the Vietnam War. The organization made the master list of Nixon political opponents...

    , Robert V Roosa
    Robert Roosa
    Robert Vincent Roosa was an American economist and banker. He served as Treasury Undersecretary for Monetary Affairs during the Kennedy administration. He believed the U.S...

    , chairman
  • Businessmen's Educational Fund
    Businessmen's Educational Fund
    The Businessmen's Educational Fund was an American political organization.Founded by Harold Willens, the group was mentioned on the original Nixon's Enemies List and on the master list of Nixon political opponents for bankrolling a syndicated 5-minute radio program considered negative toward the...

    .


Labor

  • Karl Feller
    Karl Feller
    Karl Feller is an American trade unionist. He was president of the Cincinnati local of the International Union of United Brewery, Flour, Cereal, Soft Drink and Distillery Workers....

     president, International Union United Brewery. Flour, Cereal, Soft Drink and Distillery Workers
    International Union of United Brewery, Flour, Cereal, Soft Drink and Distillery Workers
    The International Union of United Brewery, Flour, Cereal, Soft Drink and Distillery Workers was an labor union in the United States. The union merged with the Teamsters in 1973.-Early history:...

    , Cincinnati
    Cincinnati, Ohio
    Cincinnati is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio. Cincinnati is the county seat of Hamilton County. Settled in 1788, the city is located to north of the Ohio River at the Ohio-Kentucky border, near Indiana. The population within city limits is 296,943 according to the 2010 census, making it Ohio's...

  • Harold J. Gibbons
    Harold J. Gibbons
    Harold Joseph Patrick Gibbons was an American trade unionist and labor leader.Born the youngest of 23 children in Archibald Patch, Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania, he nonetheless matriculated at the University of Chicago. He became a St. Louis union leader of Warehousemen, when St...

    , international vice president, Teamsters
    Teamsters
    The International Brotherhood of Teamsters is a labor union in the United States and Canada. Formed in 1903 by the merger of several local and regional locals of teamsters, the union now represents a diverse membership of blue-collar and professional workers in both the public and private sectors....

  • A F Grospiron
    Alvin F. Grospiron
    Alvin F. Grospiron was president of Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers International Union from 1965 to 1979. He had been Secretary-Treasurer of the international union under the O. A. Knight, who had led the union since its founding merger in 1955...

    , president, Oil, Chemical Atomic Workers International Union
    Oil, Chemical & Atomic Workers Union
    The Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers Union was a trade union in the United States. At the time of its dissolution and merger in 1999, the International represented 80,000 workers and was affiliated with the AFL-CIO....

    , Denver
    Denver, Colorado
    The City and County of Denver is the capital and the most populous city of the U.S. state of Colorado. Denver is a consolidated city-county, located in the South Platte River Valley on the western edge of the High Plains just east of the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains...

  • Matthew Guinan
    Matthew Guinan
    Matthew "Mattie" Guinan was an American labor organizer, second president of Transport Workers Union of America .Born in Offaly, Ireland, he immigrated in 1929. He took a job as a trolley operator in 1933...

    , president, Transport Work. Union of America
    Transport Workers Union of America
    Transport Workers Union of America is a United States labor union that was founded in 1934 by subway workers in New York City, then expanded to represent transit employees in other cities, primarily in the eastern U.S. This article discusses the parent union and its largest local, Local 100,...

    , New York City
    New York City
    New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...


  • Paul Jennings, president, International Union Electrical, Radio & Machine Workers
    United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America
    The United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America , is an independent democratic rank-and-file labor union representing workers in both the private and public sectors across the United States....

    , Washington D.C.
    Washington, D.C.
    Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, "the District", or simply D.C., is the capital of the United States. On July 16, 1790, the United States Congress approved the creation of a permanent national capital as permitted by the U.S. Constitution....

  • Herman D. Kenin
    Herman D. Kenin
    Herman D. Kenin was an American trade unionist.He was head of American Federation of Musicians and later was a leader at American Federation of Labor. His work landed him on the master list of Nixon political opponents....

    , vice president, AFL-CIO
    AFL-CIO
    The American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations, commonly AFL–CIO, is a national trade union center, the largest federation of unions in the United States, made up of 56 national and international unions, together representing more than 11 million workers...

    . D
  • Lane Kirkland
    Lane Kirkland
    Joseph Lane Kirkland was a US labor union leader who served as President of the AFL-CIO for over sixteen years.-Biography:...

    , secretary-treasurer. AFL-CIO
    AFL-CIO
    The American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations, commonly AFL–CIO, is a national trade union center, the largest federation of unions in the United States, made up of 56 national and international unions, together representing more than 11 million workers...

     (we must deal with him)
  • Frederick O'Neal
    Frederick O'Neal
    Frederick O'Neal was an American actor, theater producer and television director. He founded the American Negro Theater and was the first African-American president of the Actors' Equity Association...

    . president. Actors and Artists America
    Associated Actors and Artistes of America
    The Associated Actors and Artistes of America is the federation of trade unions for performing artists in the United States. The following unions belong to the 4As:* The Actors' Equity Association * The American Guild of Musical Artists...

    , New York City
    New York City
    New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...

  • William Pollock, president, Textile Workers Union of America
    Textile Workers Union of America
    The Textile Workers Union of America was an industrial union of textile workers established through the Congress of Industrial Organizations in 1939 and merged with the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America to become the Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union in 1976. It waged a...

    , New York City
    New York City
    New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...


  • Jacob Potofsky
    Jacob Potofsky
    Jacob Samuel Potofsky was an American trade unionist.He was president of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America and was known for his skills as a conciliator within the union movement. His work landed him on the master list of Nixon political opponents.He died in New York City of...

     general president, Amalgam. Clothing Workers of America
    Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America
    The Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America was a United States labor union known for its support for "social unionism" and progressive political causes. Led by Sidney Hillman for its first thirty years, it helped found the Congress of Industrial Organizations...

    , New York City
    New York City
    New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...

  • Leonard Woodcock
    Leonard Woodcock
    Leonard Freel Woodcock was an American labor union leader and diplomat.He was the president of the United Automobile Workers from 1970 to 1977 and the first US ambassador to the People's Republic of China....

    , president, United Auto Workers
    United Auto Workers
    The International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America, better known as the United Auto Workers , is a labor union which represents workers in the United States and Puerto Rico, and formerly in Canada. Founded as part of the Congress of Industrial...

    , Detroit
    Detroit, Michigan
    Detroit is the major city among the primary cultural, financial, and transportation centers in the Metro Detroit area, a region of 5.2 million people. As the seat of Wayne County, the city of Detroit is the largest city in the U.S. state of Michigan and serves as a major port on the Detroit River...

  • Jerry Wurf, international president, American Federal, State, County and Municipal Employ
    American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees
    The American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees is the second- or third-largest labor union in the United States and one of the fastest-growing, representing over 1.4 million employees, primarily in local and state government and in the health care industry. AFSCME is part of the...

     Washington D.C.
    Washington, D.C.
    Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, "the District", or simply D.C., is the capital of the United States. On July 16, 1790, the United States Congress approved the creation of a permanent national capital as permitted by the U.S. Constitution....

  • Nathaniel Goldfinger
    Nathaniel Goldfinger
    Nathaniel "Nat" Goldfinger was an American economist and researcher with labor group AFL-CIO for 13 years.His work landed him on the master list of Nixon political opponents....

    , AFL-CIO
    AFL-CIO
    The American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations, commonly AFL–CIO, is a national trade union center, the largest federation of unions in the United States, made up of 56 national and international unions, together representing more than 11 million workers...

  • I. W. Abel, Steelworkers
    United Steelworkers
    The United Steel, Paper and Forestry, Rubber, Manufacturing, Energy, Allied Industrial and Service Workers International Union is the largest industrial labor union in North America, with 705,000 members. Headquartered in Pittsburgh, U.S., the United Steelworkers represents workers in the United...



Media

  • Jack Anderson, columnist, "Washington Merry-Go-Round"
  • Jim Bishop
    Jim Bishop
    James Alonzo "Jim" Bishop was an American journalist and author.Born in Jersey City, New Jersey, he dropped out of school after eighth grade. In 1923, he studied typing, shorthand and bookkeeping, and in 1929 began work as a copy boy at the New York Daily News...

    , author, columnist, King Features Syndicate
    King Features Syndicate
    King Features Syndicate, a print syndication company owned by The Hearst Corporation, distributes about 150 comic strips, newspaper columns, editorial cartoons, puzzles and games to nearly 5000 newspapers worldwide...

  • Thomas Braden
    Thomas Braden
    Thomas Wardell Braden was an American journalist, best remembered as the author of Eight is Enough, which spawned a popular television program, and was co-host of the CNN show Crossfire...

    , columnist, Los Angeles Times Syndicate
    Los Angeles Times Syndicate
    The Los Angeles Times Syndicate and the Los Angeles Times Syndicate International are newspaper syndicates which sold more than 140 features in more than 100 countries around the world....

  • D.J.R. Bruckner, Los Angeles Times Syndicate
    Los Angeles Times Syndicate
    The Los Angeles Times Syndicate and the Los Angeles Times Syndicate International are newspaper syndicates which sold more than 140 features in more than 100 countries around the world....

  • Marquis Childs
    Marquis Childs
    Marquis William Childs was an American journalist.-Personal life:Childs was born in Clinton, Iowa. He graduated from Lyons High School in Clinton in 1918; received his B.A. in 1923 and Litt.D. in 1966 from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. After working for United Press, he attended the...

    , chief Washington correspondent, St. Louis Post Dispatch
    St. Louis Post-Dispatch
    The St. Louis Post-Dispatch is the major city-wide newspaper in St. Louis, Missouri. Although written to serve Greater St. Louis, the Post-Dispatch is one of the largest newspapers in the Midwestern United States, and is available and read as far west as Kansas City, Missouri, as far south as...

  • James Deakin
    James Deakin
    James Deakin was an American journalist.Deakin was born in St. Louis and received his degree from Washington University. In 1951, he joined the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and in 1954 was appointed to the Washington Bureau during the Eisenhower administration...

    , White House correspondent, St. Louis Post Dispatch
    St. Louis Post-Dispatch
    The St. Louis Post-Dispatch is the major city-wide newspaper in St. Louis, Missouri. Although written to serve Greater St. Louis, the Post-Dispatch is one of the largest newspapers in the Midwestern United States, and is available and read as far west as Kansas City, Missouri, as far south as...

  • James Doyle
    James S. Doyle
    James S. "Jim" Doyle is an American journalist and activist.- History :He graduated from Boston College in 1956, and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in 1961...

    , Washington Star
    Washington Star
    The Washington Star, previously known as the Washington Star-News and the Washington Evening Star, was a daily afternoon newspaper published in Washington, D.C. between 1852 and 1981. For most of that time, it was the city's newspaper of record, and the longtime home to columnist Mary McGrory and...

  • Richard Dudman
    Richard Dudman
    Richard Dudman is an American journalist who covered the Congress of Racial Equality and serviced as chief of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch Washington bureau, which landed him on the master list of Nixon political opponents....

    , St. Louis Post Dispatch
    St. Louis Post-Dispatch
    The St. Louis Post-Dispatch is the major city-wide newspaper in St. Louis, Missouri. Although written to serve Greater St. Louis, the Post-Dispatch is one of the largest newspapers in the Midwestern United States, and is available and read as far west as Kansas City, Missouri, as far south as...

  • Jules Duscha
    Julius Duscha
    Julius "Jules" Duscha is an American journalist.Married Priscilla Ann McBride in 1946. Their four children are Fred C., Steven D., Suzanne, and Sally Jean. He was later remarried to Suzanne Van Den Heurk in 1997....

     [sic
    Sic
    Sic—generally inside square brackets, [sic], and occasionally parentheses, —when added just after a quote or reprinted text, indicates the passage appears exactly as in the original source...

    ], Washingtonian
    Washingtonian (magazine)
    Washingtonian is a monthly magazine distributed in the Washington, DC area since 1965. The magazine describes itself as "the magazine Washington lives by." The magazine's core focuses are local feature journalism, guide book-style articles, and real estate advice.-Editorial Content:Washingtonian...

  • William Eaton
    William J. Eaton
    William J. Eaton was an American journalist.He won a Pulitzer Prize in 1970 for his Chicago Daily News coverage of the confirmation battle over Clement Haynsworth, an unsuccessful Richard Nixon nominee for the Supreme Court of the United States...

    , Chicago Daily News
    Chicago Daily News
    The Chicago Daily News was an afternoon daily newspaper published between 1876 and 1978 in Chicago, Illinois.-History:The Daily News was founded by Melville E. Stone, Percy Meggy, and William Dougherty in 1875 and began publishing early the next year...

  • Rowland Evans Jr., syndicated columnist, Publishers Hall
    Publishers-Hall Syndicate
    Publishers-Hall Syndicate was a newspaper syndicate founded in 1944 by Robert M. Hall, the company's president and general manager.Hall had worked for The Providence Journal during high school, followed by three years at Northeastern Law School and four years at Brown University...

  • Saul Friedman
    Saul Friedman
    Saul Friedman was an American political journalist, professor, and recipient of the Pulitzer Prize.-Career:...

    n, Knight Newspapers, syndicated columnist
  • Clayton Fritchey
    Clayton Fritchey
    Clayton Fritchey was an American journalist who spent many years in public service.Clayton Fritchey was born in 1904 in Bellefontaine, Ohio. At the age of 2 he moved to Baltimore. His reporting career began at age 19 and by age 21 he had become the managing editor of The Baltimore Post. In later...

    , syndicated columnist Washington correspondent. Harpers
    Harper's Magazine
    Harper's Magazine is a monthly magazine of literature, politics, culture, finance, and the arts, with a generally left-wing perspective. It is the second-oldest continuously published monthly magazine in the U.S. . The current editor is Ellen Rosenbush, who replaced Roger Hodge in January 2010...

  • George Frazier
    George Frazier
    George Francis Frazier, Jr. was an American journalist.Boston-raised, Frazier was graduated from Harvard College in 1932. He wrote for the Boston newspapers and for Esquire magazine, as well as many other venues, including the New York papers...

    , Boston Globe
    The Boston Globe
    The Boston Globe is an American daily newspaper based in Boston, Massachusetts. The Boston Globe has been owned by The New York Times Company since 1993...

  • Lou Gordon, The Detroit News
    The Detroit News
    The Detroit News is one of the two major newspapers in the U.S. city of Detroit, Michigan. The paper began in 1873, when it rented space in the rival Free Press's building. The News absorbed the Detroit Tribune on February 1, 1919, the Detroit Journal on July 21, 1922, and on November 7, 1960,...

    columnist and television talk show host
  • Katharine Graham
    Katharine Graham
    Katharine Meyer Graham was an American publisher. She led her family's newspaper, The Washington Post, for more than two decades, overseeing its most famous period, the Watergate coverage that eventually led to the resignation of President Richard Nixon...

    , editor, The Washington Post
    The Washington Post
    The Washington Post is Washington, D.C.'s largest newspaper and its oldest still-existing paper, founded in 1877. Located in the capital of the United States, The Post has a particular emphasis on national politics. D.C., Maryland, and Virginia editions are printed for daily circulation...

  • Pete Hamill
    Pete Hamill
    Pete Hamill is an American journalist, novelist, essayist, editor and educator. Widely traveled and having written on a broad range of topics, he is perhaps best known for his career as a New York City journalist, as "the author of columns that sought to capture the particular flavors of New York...

    , New York Post
    New York Post
    The New York Post is the 13th-oldest newspaper published in the United States and is generally acknowledged as the oldest to have been published continuously as a daily, although – as is the case with most other papers – its publication has been periodically interrupted by labor actions...

  • Michael Harrington
    Michael Harrington
    Edward Michael "Mike" Harrington was an American democratic socialist, writer, political activist, professor of political science, radio commentator and founder of the Democratic Socialists of America.-Personal life:...

    , author and journal member, executive committee Socialist party
    Socialist Party of America
    The Socialist Party of America was a multi-tendency democratic-socialist political party in the United States, formed in 1901 by a merger between the three-year-old Social Democratic Party of America and disaffected elements of the Socialist Labor Party which had split from the main organization...

  • Sydney J. Harris, columnist, drama critic and writer of 'Strictly Personal,' syndicated Publishers Hall
    Publishers-Hall Syndicate
    Publishers-Hall Syndicate was a newspaper syndicate founded in 1944 by Robert M. Hall, the company's president and general manager.Hall had worked for The Providence Journal during high school, followed by three years at Northeastern Law School and four years at Brown University...


  • Robert Healy
    Robert Healy (journalist)
    Robert L. Healy was an American journalist.He was a former Executive Editor and Washington Bureau Chief of The Boston Globe. Healy was a World War II veteran and covered the Vietnam War. His work landed him on the master list of Nixon political opponents...

    , Boston Globe
    The Boston Globe
    The Boston Globe is an American daily newspaper based in Boston, Massachusetts. The Boston Globe has been owned by The New York Times Company since 1993...

  • William Hines, Jr.
    William Hines
    William M. Hines was an American journalist. According to his Washington Post obituary, he was considered "the godfather of NASA space reporting."...

    , journalist. science education, Chicago Sun Times
    Chicago Sun-Times
    The Chicago Sun-Times is an American daily newspaper published in Chicago, Illinois. It is the flagship paper of the Sun-Times Media Group.-History:The Chicago Sun-Times is the oldest continuously published daily newspaper in the city...

  • Stanley Karnow
    Stanley Karnow
    Stanley Karnow is an American journalist and historian.After serving with the United States Army Air Forces in Asia during World War II, he graduated from Harvard with a bachelor's degree in 1947; in 1947 and 1948 he attended the Sorbonne, and from 1948 to 1949 the Institut d'Études Politiques de...

    , foreign correspondent, Washington Post
    The Washington Post
    The Washington Post is Washington, D.C.'s largest newspaper and its oldest still-existing paper, founded in 1877. Located in the capital of the United States, The Post has a particular emphasis on national politics. D.C., Maryland, and Virginia editions are printed for daily circulation...

  • Ted Knap
    Ted Knap
    Ted Knap is an American journalist.He moved from Indianapolis to Washington, DC in the early 1960s.He was a syndicated columnist for the New York Daily News. His work during that time landed him on the master list of Nixon political opponents....

    , syndicated columnist, New York Daily News
    New York Daily News
    The Daily News of New York City is the fourth most widely circulated daily newspaper in the United States with a daily circulation of 605,677, as of November 1, 2011....

  • Erwin Knoll, Progressive
    The Progressive
    The Progressive is an American monthly magazine of politics, culture and progressivism with a pronounced liberal perspective on some issues. Known for its pacifism, it has strongly opposed military interventions, such as the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003. The magazine also devotes much coverage...

  • Morton Kondracke, Chicago Sun Times
    Chicago Sun-Times
    The Chicago Sun-Times is an American daily newspaper published in Chicago, Illinois. It is the flagship paper of the Sun-Times Media Group.-History:The Chicago Sun-Times is the oldest continuously published daily newspaper in the city...

  • Joseph Kraft
    Joseph Kraft
    Joseph Kraft was an American journalist.After working at the Washington Post and the New York Times in the 1950s, he became a speechwriter for 1960 Presidential candidate John F. Kennedy. His work landed him on the master list of Nixon political opponents...

    , syndicated columnist, Publishers Hall
    Publishers-Hall Syndicate
    Publishers-Hall Syndicate was a newspaper syndicate founded in 1944 by Robert M. Hall, the company's president and general manager.Hall had worked for The Providence Journal during high school, followed by three years at Northeastern Law School and four years at Brown University...

  • James Laird
    James Laird (journalist)
    James Laird is an American journalist.Laird was with The Philadelphia Inquirer when he was named to the master list of Nixon political opponents.-References:...

    , Philadelphia Inquirer
    The Philadelphia Inquirer
    The Philadelphia Inquirer is a morning daily newspaper that serves the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, metropolitan area of the United States. The newspaper was founded by John R. Walker and John Norvell in June 1829 as The Pennsylvania Inquirer and is the third-oldest surviving daily newspaper in the...

  • Max Lerner
    Max Lerner
    Maxwell "Max" Alan Lerner was an American journalist and educator known for his controversial syndicated column....

    , syndicated columnist, New York Post
    New York Post
    The New York Post is the 13th-oldest newspaper published in the United States and is generally acknowledged as the oldest to have been published continuously as a daily, although – as is the case with most other papers – its publication has been periodically interrupted by labor actions...

    : author, lecturer, professor (Brandeis University
    Brandeis University
    Brandeis University is an American private research university with a liberal arts focus. It is located in the southwestern corner of Waltham, Massachusetts, nine miles west of Boston. The University has an enrollment of approximately 3,200 undergraduate and 2,100 graduate students. In 2011, it...

    )
  • Stanley Levey
    Stanley Levey
    Stanley Levey was an American journalist.He covered labor and business news for the New York Times, CBS News and Scripps-Howard Newspapers. His work landed him on the master list of Nixon political opponents.-References:...

    , Scripps Howard
  • Flora Lewis
    Flora Lewis
    Flora Lewis was an American journalist.Lewis was born in Los Angeles and was a 1941 summa cum laude graduate of the University of California at Los Angeles, where she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. She received a master's degree in journalism from Columbia University in 1942.She wrote for The...

     syndicated columnist on economics
  • Stuart Loory
    Stuart Loory
    Stuart Hugh Loory is an American journalist and educator.-Early life and career:Loory was born in Wilson, Pennsylvania. He grew up in Dover, New Jersey, where his parents, Harry & Eve Loory, owned a large furniture store. Along with his younger brother, Melvyn, he attended prep school at Blair...

    , Los Angeles Times
    Los Angeles Times
    The Los Angeles Times is a daily newspaper published in Los Angeles, California, since 1881. It was the second-largest metropolitan newspaper in circulation in the United States in 2008 and the fourth most widely distributed newspaper in the country....

  • Mary McGrory
    Mary McGrory
    Mary McGrory was a liberal American journalist and columnist. She was a fierce opponent of the Vietnam War and was on Richard Nixon's enemies list for writing "daily hate Nixon articles."...

    , syndicated columnist on New Left
    New Left
    The New Left was a term used mainly in the United Kingdom and United States in reference to activists, educators, agitators and others in the 1960s and 1970s who sought to implement a broad range of reforms, in contrast to earlier leftist or Marxist movements that had taken a more vanguardist...

  • Frank Mankiewicz
    Frank Mankiewicz
    Frank Fabian Mankiewicz II is an American journalist.-Biography:He grew up in Beverly Hills, California. His father, screenwriter Herman Mankiewicz, co-wrote Citizen Kane, and his uncle, Joseph Mankiewicz, directed such films as All About Eve and Cleopatra.Mankiewicz received a B.A...

    , syndicated columnist Los Angeles Times
    Los Angeles Times
    The Los Angeles Times is a daily newspaper published in Los Angeles, California, since 1881. It was the second-largest metropolitan newspaper in circulation in the United States in 2008 and the fourth most widely distributed newspaper in the country....

  • James Millstone
    James Millstone
    James C. Millstone was an American journalist.As an assistant managing editor of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, his work landed him on the master list of Nixon political opponents....

    , St. Louis Post Dispatch
    St. Louis Post-Dispatch
    The St. Louis Post-Dispatch is the major city-wide newspaper in St. Louis, Missouri. Although written to serve Greater St. Louis, the Post-Dispatch is one of the largest newspapers in the Midwestern United States, and is available and read as far west as Kansas City, Missouri, as far south as...

  • Martin Nolan
    Martin Nolan
    -Boston Globe:Nolan graduated from Boston College and became a reporter for The Boston Globe in 1961. While with the Globes Washington bureau, he was on the investigative team cited in the Globe's 1966 Pulitzer Prize for meritorious and disinterested public service. He covered Congress, the White...

    , Boston Globe
    The Boston Globe
    The Boston Globe is an American daily newspaper based in Boston, Massachusetts. The Boston Globe has been owned by The New York Times Company since 1993...

  • Ed Guthman
    Ed Guthman
    Edwin O. Guthman was a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and university professor.-Biography:Guthman was born in Seattle, Washington, graduating from the University of Washington in 1941. He entered the Army in 1941. During World War II, he served as an infantry regiment reconnaissance platoon...

    , Los Angeles Times
    Los Angeles Times
    The Los Angeles Times is a daily newspaper published in Los Angeles, California, since 1881. It was the second-largest metropolitan newspaper in circulation in the United States in 2008 and the fourth most widely distributed newspaper in the country....

  • Thomas O'Neill
    Thomas O'Neill (journalist)
    Thomas M. O'Neill was an American journalist. His work while at the Baltimore Sun landed him on the White House "Enemies List" compiled by the staff of President Richard Nixon....

    , Baltimore Sun
    The Baltimore Sun
    The Baltimore Sun is the U.S. state of Maryland’s largest general circulation daily newspaper and provides coverage of local and regional news, events, issues, people, and industries....

  • John Pierson
    John Pierson (journalist)
    John Pierson is an American journalist.His work while at The Wall Street Journal earned him a place on the master list of Nixon political opponents.-References:...

    , Wall Street Journal
    The Wall Street Journal
    The Wall Street Journal is an American English-language international daily newspaper. It is published in New York City by Dow Jones & Company, a division of News Corporation, along with the Asian and European editions of the Journal....

  • William Prochnau
    William Prochnau
    William Walter Prochnau is an American journalist.His work on the Vietnam War while at the Seattle Times landed him on the master list of Nixon political opponents....

    , Seattle Times
    The Seattle Times
    The Seattle Times is a newspaper serving Seattle, Washington, US. It is the largest daily newspaper in the state of Washington. It has been, since the demise in 2009 of the printed version of the rival Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Seattle's only major daily print newspaper.-History:The Seattle Times...


  • James Reston
    James Reston
    James Barrett Reston , nicknamed "Scotty," was an American journalist whose career spanned the mid 1930s to the early 1990s. He was associated for many years with the New York Times.-Life:...

    , New York Times
    The New York Times
    The New York Times is an American daily newspaper founded and continuously published in New York City since 1851. The New York Times has won 106 Pulitzer Prizes, the most of any news organization...

  • Carl Rowan
    Carl Rowan
    Carl Thomas Rowan , was an American government official, journalist and author. Rowan was a nationally-syndicated op-ed columnist for the Washington Post and the Chicago Sun-Times. He was one of the most prominent black journalists of the 20th century.-Background:Carl Rowan was born in...

    , syndicated columnist, Publishers Hall
    Publishers-Hall Syndicate
    Publishers-Hall Syndicate was a newspaper syndicate founded in 1944 by Robert M. Hall, the company's president and general manager.Hall had worked for The Providence Journal during high school, followed by three years at Northeastern Law School and four years at Brown University...

  • Warren Unna
    Warren Unna
    Warren W. Unna is an American journalist.His work as a reporter for the Washington Post landed him on the master list of Nixon political opponents....

    , Washington Post
    The Washington Post
    The Washington Post is Washington, D.C.'s largest newspaper and its oldest still-existing paper, founded in 1877. Located in the capital of the United States, The Post has a particular emphasis on national politics. D.C., Maryland, and Virginia editions are printed for daily circulation...

    , NET
    National Educational Television
    National Educational Television was an American non-commercial educational public television network in the United States from May 16, 1954 to October 4, 1970...

  • Harriet Van Horne
    Harriet Van Horne
    Harriet Van Horne was an American newspaper columnist and film/television critic. She was a writer for many years at the New York World-Telegram and its successors.-Life and career:...

    , columnist, New York Post
    New York Post
    The New York Post is the 13th-oldest newspaper published in the United States and is generally acknowledged as the oldest to have been published continuously as a daily, although – as is the case with most other papers – its publication has been periodically interrupted by labor actions...

  • Milton Viorst
    Milton Viorst
    Milton Viorst is an American journalist.He studied history at Rutgers University. In 1951, he was a Fulbright scholar in France. He returned and attended Harvard University and Columbia University, where he graduated in 1956 in journalism....

    , reporter, author, writer
  • James Wechsler
    James Wechsler
    James A. Wechsler was an American journalist.He was a columnist and Washington bureau editor of The New York Post, and a prominent voice of American liberalism for 40 years...

    , New York Post
    New York Post
    The New York Post is the 13th-oldest newspaper published in the United States and is generally acknowledged as the oldest to have been published continuously as a daily, although – as is the case with most other papers – its publication has been periodically interrupted by labor actions...

  • Tom Wicker
    Tom Wicker
    Thomas Grey "Tom" Wicker was an American journalist. He was best known as a political reporter and columnist for The New York Times.-Background and education:...

    , New York Times
    The New York Times
    The New York Times is an American daily newspaper founded and continuously published in New York City since 1851. The New York Times has won 106 Pulitzer Prizes, the most of any news organization...

  • Garry Wills
    Garry Wills
    Garry Wills is a Pulitzer Prize-winning and prolific author, journalist, and historian, specializing in American politics, American political history and ideology and the Roman Catholic Church. Classically trained at a Jesuit high school and two universities, he is proficient in Greek and Latin...

    , syndicated columnist, author of Nixon Agonistes
  • New York Times
    The New York Times
    The New York Times is an American daily newspaper founded and continuously published in New York City since 1851. The New York Times has won 106 Pulitzer Prizes, the most of any news organization...

  • Washington Post
    The Washington Post
    The Washington Post is Washington, D.C.'s largest newspaper and its oldest still-existing paper, founded in 1877. Located in the capital of the United States, The Post has a particular emphasis on national politics. D.C., Maryland, and Virginia editions are printed for daily circulation...

  • St Louis Post Dispatch
    St. Louis Post-Dispatch
    The St. Louis Post-Dispatch is the major city-wide newspaper in St. Louis, Missouri. Although written to serve Greater St. Louis, the Post-Dispatch is one of the largest newspapers in the Midwestern United States, and is available and read as far west as Kansas City, Missouri, as far south as...

  • Robert Manning
    Robert Manning (journalist)
    Robert Joseph Manning is an American journalist. He worked as London Bureau Chief for Time, Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs and editor of the The Atlantic Monthly....

    , editor, Atlantic
    The Atlantic Monthly
    The Atlantic is an American magazine founded in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1857. It was created as a literary and cultural commentary magazine. It quickly achieved a national reputation, which it held for more than a century. It was important for recognizing and publishing new writers and poets,...

  • John Osborne
    John F. Osborne
    John F. Osborne was an American magazine editor and journalist.He was born in Corinth, Mississippi, and wrote for the Memphis Commercial Appeal and the Associated Press before joining the National Recovery Administration, and then the Tennessee Valley Authority, as a U.S...

    , New Republic
    The New Republic
    The magazine has also published two articles concerning income inequality, largely criticizing conservative economists for their attempts to deny the existence or negative effect increasing income inequality is having on the United States...

  • Richard Rovere
    Richard Rovere
    Richard Halworth Rovere was an American journalist.-Biography:He was born in Jersey City, New Jersey. He graduated from The Stony Brook School in 1933 and graduated from Bard College, then a branch of Columbia University. During the Great Depression, he joined the Communist movement and wrote for...

    , New Yorker
    The New Yorker
    The New Yorker is an American magazine of reportage, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons and poetry published by Condé Nast...

  • Robert Sherrill
    Robert Sherrill
    Robert Sherrill is an American investigative journalist and longtime contributor to The Nation, Texas Observer, and many other magazines over the years including Playboy, the New Republic and the New York Times Magazine....

    , Nation
    The Nation
    The Nation is the oldest continuously published weekly magazine in the United States. The periodical, devoted to politics and culture, is self-described as "the flagship of the left." Founded on July 6, 1865, It is published by The Nation Company, L.P., at 33 Irving Place, New York City.The Nation...

  • Paul Samuelson
    Paul Samuelson
    Paul Anthony Samuelson was an American economist, and the first American to win the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. The Swedish Royal Academies stated, when awarding the prize, that he "has done more than any other contemporary economist to raise the level of scientific analysis in...

    , Newsweek
    Newsweek
    Newsweek is an American weekly news magazine published in New York City. It is distributed throughout the United States and internationally. It is the second-largest news weekly magazine in the U.S., having trailed Time in circulation and advertising revenue for most of its existence...

  • Julian Goodman
    Julian Goodman
    Julian Goodman is a former president of the National Broadcasting Company . His hometown was Glasgow, Kentucky.His work landed him on the master list of Nixon political opponents.-References:...

    , chief executive officer, NBC
    NBC
    The National Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network and former radio network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's Rockefeller Center with additional major offices near Los Angeles and in Chicago...

  • John Macy, Jr
    John Macy
    John Williams Macy, Jr. was a United States Government administrator and civil servant.-Biography:Born in Chicago, he received a B.A. from Wesleyan University in 1938. In 1938 Macy moved to Washington, D.C. where he began his government service and studied at American University...

    , president, Public Broadcasting Corp
    Corporation for Public Broadcasting
    The Corporation for Public Broadcasting is a non-profit corporation created by an act of the United States Congress, funded by the United States’ federal government to promote public broadcasting...

    , former Civil Service Commission
    Civil Service Commission
    -Chairmen:*John Houghton MHK, 2004-date*George Waft MLC, 1996-2004*Clare Christian MLC, 1981-1982*Noel Cringle MLC, 1992-1996*Walter Gilbey, years unknown...

  • Marvin Kalb
    Marvin Kalb
    Marvin L. Kalb is an American journalist. Kalb was the Shorenstein Center's Founding Director and Edward R. Murrow Professor of Press and Public Policy . The Shorenstein Center and the Kennedy School are part of Harvard University...

    , CBS
    CBS
    CBS Broadcasting Inc. is a major US commercial broadcasting television network, which started as a radio network. The name is derived from the initials of the network's former name, Columbia Broadcasting System. The network is sometimes referred to as the "Eye Network" in reference to the shape of...

  • Daniel Schorr
    Daniel Schorr
    Daniel Louis Schorr was an American journalist who covered world news for more than 60 years. He was most recently a Senior News Analyst for National Public Radio...

    , CBS
    CBS
    CBS Broadcasting Inc. is a major US commercial broadcasting television network, which started as a radio network. The name is derived from the initials of the network's former name, Columbia Broadcasting System. The network is sometimes referred to as the "Eye Network" in reference to the shape of...

  • Lem Tucker
    Lem Tucker
    Lemuel Tucker was an American journalist.Born in Saginaw, Michigan, Tucker graduated Central Michigan University in 1960.Tucker was one of the first African Americans to work as a television network reporter...

    , NBC
    NBC
    The National Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network and former radio network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's Rockefeller Center with additional major offices near Los Angeles and in Chicago...

  • Sander Vanocur
    Sander Vanocur
    Sander "Sandy" Vanocur is an American journalist.- Career :Originally from Cleveland, Ohio, Vanocur moved to Peoria, Illinois when he was twelve years old. After attending Western Military Academy in Alton, Illinois, he earned a bachelor's degree in political science from the Northwestern...

    , NBC
    NBC
    The National Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network and former radio network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's Rockefeller Center with additional major offices near Los Angeles and in Chicago...



Celebrities

  • Carol Channing
    Carol Channing
    Carol Elaine Channing is an American singer, actress, and comedienne. She is the recipient of three Tony Awards , a Golden Globe and an Oscar nomination...

    , actress
  • Bill Cosby
    Bill Cosby
    William Henry "Bill" Cosby, Jr. is an American comedian, actor, author, television producer, educator, musician and activist. A veteran stand-up performer, he got his start at various clubs, then landed a starring role in the 1960s action show, I Spy. He later starred in his own series, the...

    , comedian
  • Jane Fonda
    Jane Fonda
    Jane Fonda is an American actress, writer, political activist, former fashion model, and fitness guru. She rose to fame in the 1960s with films such as Barbarella and Cat Ballou. She has won two Academy Awards and received several other movie awards and nominations during more than 50 years as an...

    , actress and political activist
  • John Lennon
    John Lennon
    John Winston Lennon, MBE was an English musician and singer-songwriter who rose to worldwide fame as one of the founding members of The Beatles, one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed acts in the history of popular music...

    , singer and songwriter
  • Steve McQueen
    Steve McQueen
    Terrence Steven "Steve" McQueen was an American movie actor. He was nicknamed "The King of Cool." His "anti-hero" persona, which he developed at the height of the Vietnam counterculture, made him one of the top box-office draws of the 1960s and 1970s. McQueen received an Academy Award nomination...

    , actor

  • Joe Namath
    Joe Namath
    Joseph William "Joe" Namath , nicknamed "Broadway Joe" or "Joe Willie", is a former American football quarterback. He played college football for the University of Alabama under coach Paul "Bear" Bryant and his assistant, Howard Schnellenberger, from 1962–1964, and professional football in the...

    , former New York Jets Quarterback
  • Paul Newman
    Paul Newman
    Paul Leonard Newman was an American actor, film director, entrepreneur, humanitarian, professional racing driver and auto racing enthusiast...

    , actor
  • Gregory Peck
    Gregory Peck
    Eldred Gregory Peck was an American actor.One of 20th Century Fox's most popular film stars from the 1940s to the 1960s, Peck continued to play important roles well into the 1980s. His notable performances include that of Atticus Finch in the 1962 film To Kill a Mockingbird, for which he won an...

    , actor

  • Tony Randall
    Tony Randall
    Tony Randall was a U.S. actor, comic, producer and director.-Early years:Randall was born Arthur Leonard Rosenberg to a Jewish family in Tulsa, Oklahoma, the son of Julia and Mogscha Rosenberg, an art and antiques dealer...

    , actor
  • Barbra Streisand
    Barbra Streisand
    Barbra Joan Streisand is an American singer, actress, film producer and director. She has won two Academy Awards, eight Grammy Awards, four Emmy Awards, a Special Tony Award, an American Film Institute award, a Peabody Award, and is one of the few entertainers who have won an Oscar, Emmy, Grammy,...

    , actress and singer
  • Dick Gregory
    Dick Gregory
    Richard Claxton "Dick" Gregory is an American comedian, social activist, social critic, writer, and entrepreneur....

    , comedian


Businesspeople

  • Charles B. Beneson, president, Beneson Realty Co.
  • Nelson Bengston
    Nelson Bengston
    Nelson Bengston was a United States businessman whose political views and actions in the civil rights movement landed him on the master list of Nixon political opponents. He was president of Bengston & Co., and a member of Business Executives Move for Vietnam Peace...

    , president, Bengston & Co.
  • Holmes Brown, vice president, public relations, Continental Can Co.
    Continental Can Company
    Continental Can Company was an American producer of metal containers and packaging company.The Continental Can Company was founded by Edwin Norton T.G. Cranwell in 1904, three years after the formation of its greatest rival, American Can Company...

  • Benjamin Buttenweiser
    Benjamin Buttenweiser
    Benjamin Joseph Buttenwieser was an American banker, philanthropist and civic leader in New York.Buttenwieser entered Columbia College at age 15 and graduated in 1919. He eventually became a partner of Kuhn, Loeb & Co. and director of many companies, including Revlon; Benrus Watch; Tischman...

    , limited partner, Kuhn, Loeb & Co.
    Kuhn, Loeb & Co.
    Kuhn, Loeb & Co. was a bulge bracket, investment bank founded in 1867 by Abraham Kuhn and Solomon Loeb. Under the leadership of Jacob H. Schiff, it grew to be one of the most influential investment banks in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, financing America's expanding railways and growth...

  • Lawrence G. Chait
    Lawrence G. Chait
    Lawrence G. "Larry" Chait was an American advertising executive who was a pioneer in mail order and direct marketing....

    , chairman Lawrence G. Chait & Co., Inc.
  • Ernest R. Chanes, president, Consolidated Water Conditioning Co.
  • Maxwell Dane
    Maxwell Dane
    Maxwell "Mac" Dane was an American advertising executive and co-founder of the Doyle Dane Bernbach agency, known as DDB, that was established in Manhattan in 1949. For advertising against U.S...

    , chairman, executive committee, Doyle, Dane & Bernbach, Inc.
    DDB Worldwide
    DDB Worldwide Communications Group Inc., known internationally as DDB, is a worldwide marketing communications network. It is owned by Omnicom Group Inc, one of the world's largest advertising holding companies...


  • Charles H. Dyson
    Charles Dyson
    Charlie Henry Dyson was an American businessman and philanthropist. He was founder of the Dyson Kissner-Moran Corporation and the Dyson Foundation .-Business career:...

    , chairman, the Dyson-Kissner Corp.
  • Norman Eisner, president, Lincoln Graphic Arts.
  • Charles B. Finch
    Charles B. Finch
    Charles Baker Finch was an American businessman and lawyer. He served as President and CEO of Allegheny Power System from 1971 to 1985.-Early life and education:...

    , vice president, Alleghany Power System, Inc.
  • Katharine Graham
    Katharine Graham
    Katharine Meyer Graham was an American publisher. She led her family's newspaper, The Washington Post, for more than two decades, overseeing its most famous period, the Watergate coverage that eventually led to the resignation of President Richard Nixon...

    , editor and publisher, The Washington Post
    The Washington Post
    The Washington Post is Washington, D.C.'s largest newspaper and its oldest still-existing paper, founded in 1877. Located in the capital of the United States, The Post has a particular emphasis on national politics. D.C., Maryland, and Virginia editions are printed for daily circulation...

  • Frank Heineman
    Frank Heineman
    Frank Heineman was an American businessman.He was president of Men's Wear International. His political views landed him on the master list of Nixon political opponents.-References:...

    , president, Men's Wear International.
  • George Hillman, president, Ellery Products Manufacturing Co.
  • Bertram Lichtenstein
    Bertram Lichtenstein
    Bertram Lichtenstein was an American clothing manufacturer.Lichtenstein acquired the men's wear manufacturer Delton Ltd. in the early 1960s, and under his leadership the company's collections enjoyed wide acceptance among the nation's quality retailers...

    , president, Delton Ltd.
  • William Manealoff
    William Manealoff
    William Manealoff was an American businessman.He was president of Concord Steel Corporation. His political work landed him on the master list of Nixon political opponents.-References:...

    , president, Concord Steel Corp.
  • Gerald McKee
    Gerald McKee
    Gerald McKee is an American construction management executive who was president of McKee-Berger-Mansueto . His activism landed him on the Nixon enemies list....

    , president, McKee, Berger, Mansueto.

  • Paul Milstein
    Paul Milstein
    Paul Milstein was a real estate developer and philanthropist.Born in New York City he attended DeWitt Clinton High School and the New York University School of Architecture. The family enterprises began with Morris Milstein, who emigrated to the United States from Russia and founded Circle Floor...

    , president, Circle Industries Corp.
  • Stewart R. Mott, Stewart R. Mott, Associates.
  • Lawrence S. Phillips
    Lawrence S. Phillips
    Lawrence S. Phillips is an American businessman who was chairman of Phillips-Van Heusen until 1995.Phillips graduated from Princeton University. He is on the boards of Petsmart and the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York...

    , president, Phillips-Van Heusen Corp.
  • David Rose
    David Rose
    David Rose was a British-born American songwriter, composer, arranger, pianist, and orchestra leader. His most famous compositions were "The Stripper", "Holiday for Strings", and "Calypso Melody"...

     chairman, Rose Associates.
  • Julian Roth
    Julian Roth
    Julian Roth was an American architect. Following the death of his father, founder Emery Roth, he and his brother Richard took over at Emery Roth & Sons, one of the oldest and most prolific firms in New York City....

     senior partner, Emery Roth & Sons.
  • William Ruder
    William Ruder
    William "Bill" Ruder was an American public relations executive and co-founder of Ruder Finn with David Finn.They started the firm in 1948 when both were 27. They originally called their company Art In Industry, Inc. Their first clients as Ruder & Finn was Perry Como...

    , president, Ruder & Finn, Inc.
    Ruder Finn
    Ruder Finn is an United States public relations firm founded in 1948 by David Finn and William Ruder.Ruder Finn is a privately held, family-owned company that employs more than 600 people...

  • Si Scharer, president, Scharer Associates, Inc.
  • Alfred P. Slaner
    Alfred P. Slaner
    Alfred P. Slaner was an American businessman and one-time president of the Kayser-Roth Corporation.He developed Supp-Hose uplifting hosiery. Slaner later made money in electronics and became a major benefactor of the United Jewish Appeal...

    , president, Kayser-Roth Corp.
  • Roger Sonnabend
    Roger Sonnabend
    Roger P. Sonnabend was an American hotelier and businessman. He was the head of Sonesta International Hotels Corporation....

    , chairman, Sonesta International Hotels.
  • Mathew B. Zindroski, president, ZindrosCo Industrial Systems, Inc.


Business Additions

  • Business Executives Move for Vietnam Peace and New National Priorities
    Business Executives Move for Vietnam Peace
    Business Executives Move for Vietnam Peace was an organization opposed to the Vietnam War.In September 1967 a group of nearly one thousand businessmen formed a national committee opposing United States participation in the Vietnam War. Henry E...

  • Morton Sweig
    Morton Sweig
    Morton Arthur Sweig was an American businessman and industry leader in janitorial and maintenance services.He headed National Cleaning Contractors, which later merged with ABM Industries Incorporated....

    , president. National Cleaning Contractors

  • Alan V. Tishman
    Alan V. Tishman
    Alan Valentine Tishman was a Jewish American real estate developer. He was the head of Tishman Management and Leasing Corporation....

    , executive vice president, Tishman Realty & Construction Co., Inc.
  • Ira D. Wallach
    Ira D. Wallach
    Ira David Wallach was an American businessman and philanthropist. He was head of Central National-Gottesman, the largest privately held marketer of paper and pulp products.-Life and career:...

    , president, Gottesman & Co., Inc.
    Central National-Gottesman
    Central National-Gottesman, Inc. is one of the world's largest distributors of pulp, paper, paperboard, and newsprint. The firm's products are sold in over 75 countries, through a network of 43 offices located in the United States and abroad....


  • George Weissman
    George Weissman
    George Weissman was an American businessman and a former president of Philip Morris .Weismann was born in the Bronx on July 12, 1919...

    ,, president, Philip Morris Corp.
  • Ralph Weller
    Ralph Weller
    Ralph A. Weller was president of Otis Elevator Company. His political views and activism landed him on the master list of Nixon political opponents....

    , president, Otis Elevator Company
    Otis Elevator Company
    The Otis Elevator Company is the world's largest manufacturer of vertical transportation systems today, principally focusing on elevators and escalators...



Business

  • Clifford Alexander, Jr.
    Clifford Alexander, Jr.
    Clifford Leopold Alexander, Jr. is an American lawyer, businessman and public servant. He was the first African-American Secretary of the Army.-Life and career:...

    , member, Equal Opportunity Commission; LBJ
    Lyndon B. Johnson
    Lyndon Baines Johnson , often referred to as LBJ, was the 36th President of the United States after his service as the 37th Vice President of the United States...

    's special assistant
  • Hugh Calkins
    Hugh Calkins
    Hugh Calkins was a member of the Harvard Corporation from 1969 to 1984.He was born in Newton, Ohio in 1924, and he went to Exeter before coming to Harvard. As an undergraduate, he served briefly as president of the Harvard Crimson in 1942. He graduated magna cum laude in mechanical engineering,...

    , Cleveland lawyer, member, Harvard Corp
    President and Fellows of Harvard College
    The President and Fellows of Harvard College is the more fundamental of Harvard University's two governing boards...

  • Ramsey Clark
    Ramsey Clark
    William Ramsey Clark is an American lawyer, activist and former public official. He worked for the U.S. Department of Justice, which included service as United States Attorney General from 1967 to 1969, under President Lyndon B. Johnson...

    , partner, Weiss, Goldberg, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison; former attorney general
  • Lloyd Cutler
    Lloyd Cutler
    Lloyd Norton Cutler was an American attorney, who served as White House Counsel during the Democratic administrations of Presidents Carter and Clinton. He was also the trainer of the former Vice President of the European Parliament and current Minister of Foreign Affairs of Greece, M.P...

    , lawyer, Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering, Washington, D.C.
  • Henry L. Kimelman
    Henry L. Kimelman
    Henry L. Kimelman was the United States Ambassador to Haiti from 1980-1981.He was President of the Virgin Isle Hotel, the largest resort in Saint Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands, from 1950-1960. He was also Chairman of the Board and CEO of Island Block Corp. from 1955-1980, and Chairman and CEO of the...

    , chief fund raiser for McGovern
    George McGovern
    George Stanley McGovern is an historian, author, and former U.S. Representative, U.S. Senator, and the Democratic Party nominee in the 1972 presidential election....

    . president, Overview Group
  • Raymond Lapin
    Raymond Lapin
    Raymond H. "Ray" Lapin was and American mortgage banking executive known as the father of the secondary mortgage market. He served under President Lyndon B...

    , former president, FNMA
    Federal National Mortgage Association
    The Federal National Mortgage Association , commonly known as Fannie Mae, was founded in 1938 during the Great Depression as part of the New Deal. It is a government-sponsored enterprise , though it has been a publicly traded company since 1968...

    ; corporation executive
  • Hans F. Loeser
    Hans F. Loeser
    Hans F. Loeser was an American lawyer whose activism during the Vietnam War earned him the enmity of Richard Nixon....

    , chairman, Boston Lawyers' Vietnam Committee
  • Robert McNamara
    Robert McNamara
    Robert Strange McNamara was an American business executive and the eighth Secretary of Defense, serving under Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson from 1961 to 1968, during which time he played a large role in escalating the United States involvement in the Vietnam War...

    , president, World Bank
    World Bank
    The World Bank is an international financial institution that provides loans to developing countries for capital programmes.The World Bank's official goal is the reduction of poverty...

    ; former Secretary of Defense

  • Hans Morgenthau
    Hans Morgenthau
    Hans Joachim Morgenthau was one of the leading twentieth-century figures in the study of international politics...

    , a pioneer in the field of international relations theory.
  • Victor Palmieri
    Victor Palmieri
    Victor Henry Palmieri is an American lawyer, real estate financier and corporate turnaround specialist. He was also Ambassador at Large and U.S. Coordinator for Refugee Affairs in the United States Department of State during the Jimmy Carter administration.Born in Chicago, he earned his A.B. and...

    , lawyer, business consultant, real estate executive, Los Angeles.
  • Arnold Picker
    Arnold Picker
    Arnold M. Picker was a United States film industry executive, mayor of Golden Beach, Florida and the number one enemy on Richard Nixon's list of targets.Picker began his career by following in his father's footsteps...

    , Muskie
    Edmund Muskie
    Edmund Sixtus "Ed" Muskie was an American politician from Rumford, Maine. He served as Governor of Maine from 1955 to 1959, as a member of the United States Senate from 1959 to 1980, and as Secretary of State under Jimmy Carter from 1980 to 1981...

    's chief fund raiser; chairman executive committee, United Artists
  • Robert S. Pirie
    Robert S. Pirie
    Robert S. Pirie is an American lawyer.Pirie graduated from Harvard College and Harvard Law School. As an undergraduate he was attracted to bibliographical work in Elizabethan authors and began to collect actively while on service with the United States Army in the late 1950s.During the 1960s and...

    , Harold Hughes
    Harold Hughes
    Harold Everett Hughes was the 36th Governor of Iowa from 1963 until 1969; he had been a Republican earlier in his life. He also served as a Democratic United States Senator from 1969 until 1975.-Background:...

    ' chief fund raiser: Boston lawyer.
  • Joseph Rosenfield
    Joseph Rosenfield
    Joseph Frankel Rosenfield was an American lawyer, businessman and philanthropist.Rosenfield graduated from Grinnell College in 1925 and earned a J.D. from the University of Iowa College of Law in 1928. He practiced law with a Des Moines law firm until 1947...

    , Harold Hughes
    Harold Hughes
    Harold Everett Hughes was the 36th Governor of Iowa from 1963 until 1969; he had been a Republican earlier in his life. He also served as a Democratic United States Senator from 1969 until 1975.-Background:...

    ' money man; retired Des Moines lawyer.
  • Henry Rowen
    Henry Rowen
    Henry S. Rowen is an American politician, economist, and academician.- Early years :Rowen was born in Boston in 1925. He attended M.I.T. and graduated with a bachelor's in industrial management in 1949...

    , president, Rand Corp.
    RAND
    RAND Corporation is a nonprofit global policy think tank first formed to offer research and analysis to the United States armed forces by Douglas Aircraft Company. It is currently financed by the U.S. government and private endowment, corporations including the healthcare industry, universities...

    , former assistant director of budget (LBJ
    Lyndon B. Johnson
    Lyndon Baines Johnson , often referred to as LBJ, was the 36th President of the United States after his service as the 37th Vice President of the United States...

    )
  • R Sargent Shriver, Jr.
    Sargent Shriver
    Robert Sargent Shriver, Jr., known as Sargent Shriver, R. Sargent Shriver, or, from childhood, Sarge, was an American statesman and activist. As the husband of Eunice Kennedy Shriver, he was part of the Kennedy family, serving in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations...

    , former US. ambassador to France; lawyer, Strasser, Spiefelberg, Fried, Frank & Kempelman, Washington, D.C. [1972 Democratic vice presidential candidate]

  • Theodore Sorensen, lawyer, Weiss, Goldberg, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, New York.
  • Ray Stark
    Ray Stark
    Ray Stark was an American film producer and powerbroker known for his Machiavellian ways.While putting together the Broadway musical Funny Girl - the highly fictionalized account of the life of his mother-in-law, Fanny Brice - its producer David Merrick took Stark and his wife to see an unknown...

    , Broadway producer.
  • Howard Stein
    Howard Stein
    Howard Mathew Stein ) was an American financier who is widely considered one of the fathers of the mutual fund industry. He was featured on the cover of TIME Magazine on August 24, 1970...

    , president and director, Dreyfus Corporation
    Dreyfus Corporation
    Dreyfus, established in 1951 and headquartered in New York City, is one of the nation’s leading managers of investment products and strategies. The company merged with Mellon Financial in 1994, and then became a subsidiary of Bank of New York Mellon when Mellon Financial and The Bank of New York...

    .
  • Milton Semer
    Milton Semer
    Milton Phillip Semer is an American lawyer.-Career:He was General Counsel for the U.S. Housing and Home Finance Agency from 1961 to 1966....

    , chairman, Muskie
    Edmund Muskie
    Edmund Sixtus "Ed" Muskie was an American politician from Rumford, Maine. He served as Governor of Maine from 1955 to 1959, as a member of the United States Senate from 1959 to 1980, and as Secretary of State under Jimmy Carter from 1980 to 1981...

     Election Committee; lawyer, Semer and Jacobsen
  • George H. Talbot
    George H. Talbot
    George H. Talbot was an American businessman.He was president of now-defunct Charlotte Liberty Mutual Insurance Co. in North Carolina.He made the master list of Nixon political opponents because he "headed anti-Vietnam ad."...

    , president, Charlotte Liberty Mutual Insurance Co. ; headed anti-Vietnam ad
  • Arthur Taylor, vice president, International Paper Company [presently CBS president]
  • Jack Valenti
    Jack Valenti
    Jack Joseph Valenti was a long-time president of the Motion Picture Association of America. During his 38-year tenure in the MPAA, he created the MPAA film rating system, and he was generally regarded as one of the most influential pro-copyright lobbyists in the world...

    , president, Motion Picture Association
    Motion Picture Association of America
    The Motion Picture Association of America, Inc. , originally the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America , was founded in 1922 and is designed to advance the business interests of its members...

    .
  • Paul Warnke
    Paul Warnke
    Paul Culliton Warnke was a United States diplomat.He was born in Webster, Massachusetts but spent most of his childhood in Marlborough, Massachusetts, where his father managed a shoe factory. He attended Yale University, fought in World War II for five years in the United States Coast Guard, and...

    , Muskie financial supporter, former assistant secretary of defense
  • Thomas I. Watson, Jr.
    Thomas J. Watson, Jr.
    Thomas John Watson, Jr. was an American businessman, political figure, and philanthropist. He was the 2nd president of IBM , the 11th national president of the Boy Scouts of America , and the 16th United States Ambassador to the Soviet Union...

    [sic
    Sic
    Sic—generally inside square brackets, [sic], and occasionally parentheses, —when added just after a quote or reprinted text, indicates the passage appears exactly as in the original source...

    ], Muskie financial supporter; chairman, IBM
    IBM
    International Business Machines Corporation or IBM is an American multinational technology and consulting corporation headquartered in Armonk, New York, United States. IBM manufactures and sells computer hardware and software, and it offers infrastructure, hosting and consulting services in areas...



Academics

  • Michael Ellis DeBakey
    Michael E. DeBakey
    Michael Elias DeBakey was a world-renowned Lebanese-American cardiac surgeon, innovator, scientist, medical educator, and international medical statesman...

    , chairman, department of surgery, Baylor College of Medicine
    Baylor College of Medicine
    Baylor College of Medicine, located in the Texas Medical Center in Houston, Texas, USA, is a highly regarded medical school and leading center for biomedical research and clinical care...

    ; surgeon-in-chief, Ben Taub General Hospital
    Ben Taub General Hospital
    Ben Taub General Hospital is a hospital located in Houston, Texas within the Texas Medical Center. Opening in May 1963, the hospital is owned and operated by the Harris County Hospital District and is staffed by the faculty, residents, and students from Baylor College of Medicine.Ben Taub is a...

    . Texas
  • Derek Curtis Bok, dean, Harvard Law School
    Harvard Law School
    Harvard Law School is one of the professional graduate schools of Harvard University. Located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, it is the oldest continually-operating law school in the United States and is home to the largest academic law library in the world. The school is routinely ranked by the U.S...

  • Kingman Brewster, Jr.
    Kingman Brewster, Jr.
    Kingman Brewster, Jr., was an educator, president of Yale University, and American diplomat.-Early life:...

    , president, Yale University
    Yale University
    Yale University is a private, Ivy League university located in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701 in the Colony of Connecticut, the university is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States...

    .
  • McGeorge Bundy
    McGeorge Bundy
    McGeorge "Mac" Bundy was United States National Security Advisor to Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson from 1961 through 1966, and president of the Ford Foundation from 1966 through 1979...

    , president, Ford Foundation
    Ford Foundation
    The Ford Foundation is a private foundation incorporated in Michigan and based in New York City created to fund programs that were chartered in 1936 by Edsel Ford and Henry Ford....

    .
  • Avram Noam Chomsky
    Noam Chomsky
    Avram Noam Chomsky is an American linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, and activist. He is an Institute Professor and Professor in the Department of Linguistics & Philosophy at MIT, where he has worked for over 50 years. Chomsky has been described as the "father of modern linguistics" and...

    , professor of linguistics, MIT
    Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is a private research university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts. MIT has five schools and one college, containing a total of 32 academic departments, with a strong emphasis on scientific and technological education and research.Founded in 1861 in...

  • Carl Djerassi
    Carl Djerassi
    Carl Djerassi is an Austrian-American chemist, novelist, and playwright best known for his contribution to the development of the first oral contraceptive pill . Djerassi is emeritus professor of chemistry at Stanford University.He participated in the invention in 1951, together with Mexican Luis E...

    , professor of chemistry, and co-inventor of the first oral contraceptive pill Stanford University
    Stanford University
    The Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private research university on an campus located near Palo Alto, California. It is situated in the northwestern Santa Clara Valley on the San Francisco Peninsula, approximately northwest of San...

  • Daniel Ellsberg
    Daniel Ellsberg
    Daniel Ellsberg, PhD, is a former United States military analyst who, while employed by the RAND Corporation, precipitated a national political controversy in 1971 when he released the Pentagon Papers, a top-secret Pentagon study of U.S. government decision-making in relation to the Vietnam War,...

    , professor, MIT
    Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is a private research university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts. MIT has five schools and one college, containing a total of 32 academic departments, with a strong emphasis on scientific and technological education and research.Founded in 1861 in...

    .
  • George Drennen Fischer
    George Drennen Fischer
    George Drennen Fischer was an American activist and spokesman for the National Education Association.In 1968, he signed the “Writers and Editors War Tax Protest” pledge, vowing to refuse tax payments in protest against the Vietnam War....

    , member, executive committee. National Education Association
    National Education Association
    The National Education Association is the largest professional organization and largest labor union in the United States, representing public school teachers and other support personnel, faculty and staffers at colleges and universities, retired educators, and college students preparing to become...


  • J. Kenneth Galbraith
    John Kenneth Galbraith
    John Kenneth "Ken" Galbraith , OC was a Canadian-American economist. He was a Keynesian and an institutionalist, a leading proponent of 20th-century American liberalism...

    , professor of economics, Harvard
    Harvard University
    Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...

  • Patricia Harris
    Patricia Roberts Harris
    Patricia Roberts Harris served as United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, and United States Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare in the administration of President Jimmy Carter...

    , educator, lawyer, former US. ambassador; chairman welfare committee Urban League
  • Walter Heller
    Walter Heller
    Walter Wolfgang Heller was a leading American economist of the 1960s, and an influential advisor to President John F. Kennedy as chairman of the Council of Economic Advisors, 1961-64....

    , regents professor of economics, University of Minnesota
    University of Minnesota
    The University of Minnesota, Twin Cities is a public research university located in Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota, United States. It is the oldest and largest part of the University of Minnesota system and has the fourth-largest main campus student body in the United States, with 52,557...

  • Edwin Land, inventor of instant photography.
  • Herbert Ley, Jr.
    Herbert Ley, Jr.
    Herbert Leonard Ley, Jr. was an American physician and government official.-Biography:He attended Harvard College from 1941-1943, and returned there after World War II, where he received his M.D. degree, cum laude, in 1946. In 1951, he earned an Master of Public Health degree from the Harvard...

    , former FDA commissioner; professor of epidemiology, Harvard
    Harvard University
    Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...

    .
  • Matthew Stanley Meselson
    Matthew Meselson
    Matthew Stanley Meselson is an American geneticist and molecular biologist whose research was important in showing how DNA replicates, recombines and is repaired in cells. In his mature years, he has been an active chemical and biological weapons activist and consultant...

    , professor of biology, Harvard
    Harvard University
    Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...

  • Lloyd N. Morrisett
    Lloyd N. Morrisett
    Lloyd N. Morrisett was an American educator.Born in Barrettsville, Tennessee, he graduated high school in Edmond, Oklahoma, and he received his A.B. degree from the University of Oklahoma in 1917. He earned an A.M. degree and Ph.D...

    , professor and associate director, education program, University of California
    University of California
    The University of California is a public university system in the U.S. state of California. Under the California Master Plan for Higher Education, the University of California is a part of the state's three-tier public higher education system, which also includes the California State University...


  • Joseph Rhodes, Jr.
    Joseph Rhodes, Jr.
    Joseph Rhodes, Jr. is an American politician and activist.Rhodes attended Pittsburgh public schools and received a B.S. in history from the California Institute of Technology, where he was Student Body President, in 1969. He attended Harvard University as a Junior Fellow in Intellectual History,...

    , fellow, Harvard
    Harvard University
    Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...

    ; member, Scranton commission on Campus Unrest
    President's Commission on Campus Unrest
    On June 13, 1970, President Richard Nixon established the President's Commission on Campus Unrest, which became known as the Scranton Commission after its chairman, former Pennsylvania governor William Scranton....

  • Bayard Rustin
    Bayard Rustin
    Bayard Rustin was an American leader in social movements for civil rights, socialism, pacifism and non-violence, and gay rights.In the pacifist Fellowship of Reconciliation , Rustin practiced nonviolence...

    , civil rights activist; director, A. Philip Randolph Institute
    A. Philip Randolph Institute
    The A. Philip Randolph Institute is an organization for African American trade unionists.-History:Following passage of the Voting Rights Act, APRI was co-founded in 1965 by A. Philip Randolph and Bayard Rustin...

    , New York.
  • David Selden
    David Selden
    David Selden was an American activist who led the American Federation of Teachers from 1968 through 1974.As Director of Organization of the Teachers Guild from 1953, he was a main strategist in the creation of the United Federation of Teachers in 1960 and the winning of collective bargaining in 1961...

    , president, American Federation of Teachers
    American Federation of Teachers
    The American Federation of Teachers is an American labor union founded in 1916 that represents teachers, paraprofessionals and school-related personnel; local, state and federal employees; higher education faculty and staff, and nurses and other healthcare professionals...

    .
  • Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., professor of humanities, City University of New York
    City University of New York
    The City University of New York is the public university system of New York City, with its administrative offices in Yorkville in Manhattan. It is the largest urban university in the United States, consisting of 23 institutions: 11 senior colleges, six community colleges, the William E...

  • Jeremy Stone
    Jeremy Stone
    Jeremy J. Stone was president of the Federation of American Scientists from 1970 to 2000, where he led that organization's advocacy initiatives in arms control, human rights, and foreign policy. In 2000, he was succeeded as president by Dr. Henry Kelly. Stone continued his work at a new...

    , director, Federation of American Scientists
    Federation of American Scientists
    The Federation of American Scientists is a nonpartisan, 501 organization intent on using science and scientific analysis to attempt make the world more secure. FAS was founded in 1945 by scientists who worked on the Manhattan Project to develop the first atomic bombs...

  • Jerome Wiesner
    Jerome Wiesner
    Jerome Bert Wiesner was an educator, a Science Advisor to U.S. Presidents Eisenhower and Kennedy and Johnson, an advocate for arms control, and a critic of anti-ballistic-missile defense systems...

    , president, MIT
    Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is a private research university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts. MIT has five schools and one college, containing a total of 32 academic departments, with a strong emphasis on scientific and technological education and research.Founded in 1861 in...

    .
  • Samuel M. Lambert
    Samuel M. Lambert
    Samuel M. Lambert was president of the National Education Association during the administration of Richard M. Nixon...

    , president, National Education Association
    National Education Association
    The National Education Association is the largest professional organization and largest labor union in the United States, representing public school teachers and other support personnel, faculty and staffers at colleges and universities, retired educators, and college students preparing to become...



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