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Eugene Mccarthy — Part 6
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The June 23, LI65, issue of "The Fire — %
- Bureaucracy's Voice", an SDS publication, listed
Richard Flacks as having been elected aS an at large
nenber of the National Council of SDS at the 1965
SDS convention held at Camo “aplehurst, Kewadin,
Michigan, .
; On May 20, 1966, Richard Flacks, dh, D., :
Associate -rofessor of Sociology, University of Chicago,
Chicago, during an interview with Special Agents of tne
. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) regarding another
matter, advised that he was the leader of SDS at the
University of Michigan while attending that istitution,
Flacks related that Since leaving the University of
Michigan, he has remained active in SDS, was currently
a member of SDS, and had been active in demonstrations on
the University of Chicago campus concerning Vietnam and
Selective Service System policies.
The article mentioned above continued as
follows:
"Alice Widener, a New York writer, rleports in
her syndicated column that the new movement was -discussed
at a luncheon given by the Rev. Willian Sioane Coffin, Jr.,
chadlain of Yale university ii THe WoseVelt “hotel in New
York City Tuesday, the day before the chaplain was Sentenced
Oo five years in orison for his anti-draft activities. Mrs.
Widener quoted one of the luncheon Suests as saying;
“'We're going to take the Student ovement out of
the hands of the undergraduates and out it in the hands of
politically Sopdhisticated, better-disciplined graduate |
Students. We nave Some good ones at Stanford andthe
University of Chicago. We've brought sone §00d foreign
_ Ones in thru Fulbrignt fellowships, ' oo
"hirs. Widener reported that the guests said that
"ghase 1! of the new left revolution was completed wi n the
recent student disruptions, including ‘our Victory at/
Columbia,! wassive Student suonort of Sen. Fugene J. Me Carth
-in his vresidential camden, and (hentectston of Brosideat
Johnson not to seek reelection. Altho they ascribed ;
“Johnson's ‘abdication’ to the Ne Carthy campaign, the young
revolutionaries, including two Graduate students from
Rutgers university, described le Carthy as a useful but
exoendable tool, just a "throwaway, ' Mrs. Widener wrote...
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