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Kennedy's 100 Professors

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The Times

Shreveport, Louisiana
06 Aug 1960, Sat \u2022 Page 4

Kennedy's 100 Professors

It is natural and good politics for Senator Kennedy to talk
at length with Aldai Stevenson, whose "softness\u201d on Communist issues
no longer needs comment, and also Chester Bowles, whose trends to
Socialism dominate economic planks of the Democratic platform which Kennedy and
Johnson so glowingly approve.

They are two of his campaign props. Nor is there surprise
that Walter Reuther has been publicized with Kennedy at Hyannis Port at
a perhaps higher level than Stevenson and Johnson along with "Soapv"
Williams, who suddenly has discovered that Lyndon Johnson under the
skin is his true brother in economic liberalism with which "Soapy"
financially wrecked Michigan's government.

This oral embracing of Johnson by "Soapy" was
quite a contrast with the last TV shots of the Michigan Governor at the Democratic
convention as Johnson was nominated. Then, "Soapy" leaned back in a
delegation chair, spread his arms, rolled his eyes, and moaned: "What we
need around here is air somebody get some fans!"

With Reuther was Arthur Goldberg, attorney for
the United Steelworkers, and Profs. Richard Lester of Princeton and Archibald
Cox of Harvard, both noted as pro-labor economics experts. These four are
the Kennedy "Labor Advisory Board." It's easy to see where business
gets off in this Kennedy setup.

Nixon says Kennedy "bought" AFL-CIO support
(expected formally at the coming AFL-CIO convention) , with the Democratic
Platform, though it could be that Reuther "bought" the Platform with
nomination votes. Reportedly 280 Kennedy delegates at Los Angeles were
connected directly with AFL-CIO or indebted to its unions for public offices
they hold.

On top of this, the Kennedy press department is
boasting that Professor Cox now has organized a "team" of more than
100 college and university professors to be a Kennedy "brain trust"
throughout the campaign. Kennedy has had a group of about 10 for the past three
years. Harvard faculty members dominated in this pre-nomination group
because all of the Kennedy family for two generations have attended Harvard.
But now the list spreads across through the big Middle Western and Far Western
schools, as well as up and down the Atlantic Coast. All are understood to be
payroll workers.

As top experts on civil rights, constitutional law and internationalism
Kennedy retains his pre-nomination group: Profs' Paul Nitze of Johns
Hopkins, Zbigniev Brzezinski of Columbia, who reportedly reads Pravda
with his morning coffee instead of the Boston Herald; Jerome Weisner and
Lucien Pye of M.I.T., Edwin Katzenbach of Brandeis University and
Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., noted leader in the Americans for Democratic
Action; Arthur Maas, Seymour Harris, and Martin Myers, the latter
four all of Harvard.

Especially "expert" on constitutional law and
civil rights are Mark Wolfe Howe, Paul Freund and Abraham Chayes,
also Harvard professors. We tried reading some of Freund's constitutionalism
awhile back and in retrospect there arises the thought that under his views
even such a radical document as the Democratic civil rights plank might be
viewed by him as leaning too much to GOP Old Guard McKinlcyism.

Yet, Freund was the man who behind the scenes fought very
hard for the Southern position of guarantee of jury trials in civil rights
injunction suits brought by the Department of Justice when the issue was before
the Senate. So, you can't always tell.

These and some 90 other professors will work continuously
for Kennedy during They already are responsible, it is said, for his
pre-convention "major speech" in the Senate on foreign policy. In
that speech he urged that the United States stand by Chiang Kai-shek and
at the same time train Mao and Red China to be good enough people
to come into United Nations eventually. He never explained how both
groups could represent China in U.N.; or how the United States could support
Mao without breaking its treaties with Chiang.

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