 | The Cavalier daily. Tuesday, April 22, 1969 |  |
Lowenstein Discusses
Crisis In Democracy
Before Legal Forum
Representative Allard K. Lowenstein,
a Democrat-Liberal representing
New York's Fifty District
and a leader of the floor fight at the
Democratic National Convention to
nominate Senator Eugene J. McCarthy
for President, will speak to
the Student Legal Forum at 8:30
tonight in Wilson Hall on the
"Crisis in American Democracy."
Mr. Lowenstein, who was
elected to the 91st Congress in the
November elections, was a guiding
force behind the "Dump Johnson"
movement to deny renomination to
former President Lyndon B. Johnson.
Before Mr. Johnson announced
his decision not to run, Mr.
Lowenstein tried to persuade Senators
Robert F. Kennedy and George
McGovern to seek the Democrat
nomination. He did help persuade
Senator McCarthy to run for the
presidential nomination and organized
his campaign.
After graduating from the University
of North Carolina in 1949.
Mr. Lowenstein served as a special
assistant to former North Carolina
Senator Frank P. Graham for two
years. He received his L.L.B. from
Yale Law School in 1959 and
served as an enlisted man in the
Army.
He has been on the faculties of
Stanford University. North Carolina
State University and the City
College of New York.
In 1959 Mr. Lowenstein became
Senator Hubert . Humphrey's
foreign policy assistant and has
subsequently served as an advisor to
the late Reverend Martin Luther
King Jr.'s Southern Christian
Leadership Conference. He is a
friend of the Kennedy family and
after Senator Kennedy entered the
presidential primaries. Mr. Lowenstein
advised both Senator McCarthy
and Senator Kennedy.
| The Cavalier daily. Tuesday, April 22, 1969 | |