President Nixon's political opponents

List of President Nixon's political opponents

Senators

• Birch Bayh
• J. W. Fulbright
• Fred R. Harris
• Harold Hughes
• Edward M. Kennedy
• George McGovern
• Walter Mondale
• Edmund Muskie
• Gaylord Nelson
• William Proxmire

Members of the House of Representatives

• Bella Abzug
• William R. Anderson
• John Brademas
• Father Robert Drinan
• Robert Kastenmeier
• Wright Patman

Black Congressmen and Congresswomen

• Shirley Chisholm
• William Clay
• George Collins
• John Conyers
• Ronald Dellums
• Charles Diggs
• Augustus Hawkins
• Ralph Metcalfe
• Robert N.C. Nix
• Parren Mitchell
• Charles Rangel
• Louis Stokes

Other politicians

• John Lindsay, Mayor of New York City
• Eugene McCarthy, former U.S senator
• George Wallace, Governor of Alabama

Organizations

• Black Panthers, Hughie Newton
• Brookings Institution, Lesley Gelb and others
• Business Executives Move for VN Peace. Henry Niles, national chairman, Vincent McGee. executive director
• Committee for an Effective Congress. Russell Hemenway
• Common Cause, John Gardner, Morton Halperin, Charles Goodell, Walter Hickel
• Congressional Black Caucus
• COPE (AFL-CIO Committee on Political Education), Alexander E Barkan
• Council for a Livable World, Bernard T. Feld, pr idem: professor of physics. MIT
• Farmers Union, NFO
• Institute of Policy study Richard Barnet, Marcus Raskin
• National Economic Council, Inc.
• National Education Association, Sam M. Lambert president
• National Student Association, Charles Palmer president
• National Welfare Rights Organization, George Wiley
• Potomac Associates, William Watts
• SANE, Sanford Gottlieb
• Southern Christian Leadership, Ralph Abernathy;
• Third National Convocation on the Challenge of Building Peace, Robert V Roosa, chairman
• Businessmen's Educational Fund.

Labor

• Karl Feller president, International Union United Brewery. Flour, Cereal, Soft Drink and Distillery Workers, Cincinnati
• Harold J. Gibbons, international vice president, Teamsters
• A F Grospiron, president, Oil, Chemical Atomic Workers International Union, Denver
• Matthew Guinan, president, Transport Work. Union of America, New York City
• Paul Jennings, president, International Union Electrical, Radio & Machine Workers, Washington D.C.
• Herman D. Kenin, vice president, AFL-CIO. D
• Lane Kirkland, secretary-treasurer. AFL-CIO (we must deal with him)
• Frederick O'Neal. president. Actors and Artists America, New York City
• William Pollock, president, Textile Workers Union of America, New York City
• Jacob Potofsky general president, Amalgam. Clothing Workers of America, New York City
• Leonard Woodcock, president, United Auto Workers, Detroit
• Jerry Wurf, international president, American Federal, State, County and Municipal Employ Washington D.C.
• Nathaniel Goldfinger, AFL-CIO
• I. W. Abel, Steelworkers

Media

• Jack Anderson, columnist, "Washington Merry-Go-Round"
• Jim Bishop, author, columnist, King Features Syndicate
• Thomas Braden, columnist, Los Angeles Times Syndicate
• D. J. R. Bruckner, Los Angeles Times Syndicate
• Marquis Childs, chief Washington correspondent, St. Louis Post Dispatch
• James Deakin, White House correspondent, St. Louis Post Dispatch
• James Doyle, Washington Star
• Richard Dudman, St. Louis Post Dispatch
• Jules Duscha, Washingtonian
• William Eaton, Chicago Daily News
• Rowland Evans Jr., syndicated columnist, Publishers Hall
• Saul Friedmann, Knight Newspapers, syndicated columnist
• Clayton Fritchey, syndicated columnist Washington correspondent. Harpers
• George Frazier, Boston Globe
• Lou Gordon, The Detroit News columnist and television talk show host
• Katharine Graham, editor and publisher, The Washington Post
• Pete Hamill, New York Post
• Michael Harrington, author and journal member, executive committee Socialist party
• Sydney J. Harris, columnist, drama critic and writer of 'Strictly Personal,' syndicated Publishers Hall
• Robert Healy, Boston Globe
• William Hines, Jr., journalist. science education, Chicago Sun Times
• Stanley Karnow, foreign correspondent, Washington Post
• Ted Knap, syndicated columnist, New York Daily News
• Erwin Knoll, Progressive
• Morton Kondracke, Chicago Sun Times
• Joseph Kraft, syndicated columnist, Publishers Hall
• James Laird, Philadelphia Inquirer
• Max Lerner, syndicated columnist, New York Post: author, lecturer, professor (Brandeis University)
• Stanley Levey, Scripps Howard
• Flora Lewis syndicated columnist on economics
• Stuart Loory, Los Angeles Times
• Mary McGrory, syndicated columnist on New Left
• Frank Mankiewicz, syndicated columnist Los Angeles Times
• James Millstone, St. Louis Post Dispatch
• Martin Nolan, Boston Globe
• Ed Guthman, Los Angeles Times
• Thomas O'Neill, Baltimore Sun
• John Pierson, Wall Street Journal
• William Prochnau, Seattle Times
• James Reston, New York Times
• Carl Rowan, syndicated columnist, Publishers Hall
• Warren Unna, Washington Post, NET
• Harriet Van Horne, columnist, New York Post
• Milton Viorst, reporter, author, writer
• James Wechsler, New York Post
• Tom Wicker, New York Times
• Garry Wills, syndicated columnist, author of Nixon Agonistes
• New York Times
• Washington Post
• St Louis Post Dispatch
• Robert Manning, editor, Atlantic
• John Osborne, New Republic
• Richard Rovere, New Yorker
• Robert Sherrill, Nation
• Paul Samuelson, Newsweek
• Julian Goodman, chief executive officer, NBC
• John Macy, Jr, president, Public Broadcasting Corp, former Civil Service Commission
• Marvin Kalb, CBS
• Daniel Schorr, CBS
• Lem Tucker, NBC
• Sander Vanocur, NBC

Celebrities

• Carol Channing, actress
• Bill Cosby, comedian
• Jane Fonda, actress and political activist
• Dick Gregory, comedian and civil rights and peace activist.
• Steve McQueen, actor
• Joe Namath, former New York Jets Quarterback
• Paul Newman, actor
• Gregory Peck, actor
• Tony Randall, actor
• Barbra Streisand, actress, singer, director, producer, writer, philanthropist, political advocate

Business people

• Charles B. Beneson, president, Beneson Realty Co.
• Nelson Bengston, president, Bengston & Co.
• Holmes Brown, vice president, public relations, Continental Can Co.
• Benjamin Buttenweiser, limited partner, Kuhn, Loeb & Co.
• Lawrence G. Chait, chairman Lawrence G. Chait & Co., Inc.
• Ernest R. Chanes, president, Consolidated Water Conditioning Co.
• Maxwell Dane, chairman, executive committee, Doyle, Dane & Bernbach, Inc.
• Charles H. Dyson, chairman, the Dyson-Kissner Corp.
• Norman Eisner, president, Lincoln Graphic Arts.
• Charles B. Finch, vice president, Alleghany Power System, Inc.
• Frank Heineman, president, Men's Wear International.
• George Hillman, president, Ellery Products Manufacturing Co.
• Bertram Lichtenstein, president, Delton Ltd.
• William Manealoff, president, Concord Steel Corp.
• Gerald McKee, president, McKee, Berger, Mansueto.
• Paul Milstein, president, Circle Industries Corp.
• Stewart R. Mott, Stewart R. Mott, Associates.
• Lawrence S. Phillips, president, Phillips-Van Heusen Corp.
• David Rose, chairman, Rose Associates.
• Julian Roth senior partner, Emery Roth & Sons.
• William Ruder, president, Ruder & Finn, Inc.
• Si Scharer, president, Scharer Associates, Inc.
• Alfred P. Slaner, president, Kayser-Roth Corp.
• Roger Sonnabend, chairman, Sonesta International Hotels.

Business additions

• Business Executives Move for Vietnam Peace and New National Priorities
• Morton Sweig, president. National Cleaning Contractors
• Alan V. Tishman, executive vice president, Tishman Realty & Construction Co., Inc.
• Ira D. Wallach, president, Gottesman & Co., Inc.
• George Weissman,, president, Philip Morris Corp.
• Ralph Weller, president, Otis Elevator Company

Business

• Clifford Alexander, Jr., member, Equal Opportunity Commission; LBJ's special assistant
• Hugh Calkins, Cleveland lawyer, member, Harvard Corp
• Ramsey Clark, partner, Weiss, Goldberg, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison; former attorney general
• Lloyd Cutler, lawyer, Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering, Washington, D.C.
• Henry L. Kimelman, chief fund raiser for McGovern. president, Overview Group
• Raymond Lapin, former president, FNMA; corporation executive
• Hans F. Loeser, chairman, Boston Lawyers' Vietnam Committee
• Robert McNamara, president, World Bank; former Secretary of Defense
• Hans Morgenthau, a pioneer in the field of international relations theory.
• Victor Palmieri, lawyer, business consultant, real estate executive, Los Angeles.
• Arnold Picker, Muskie's chief fund raiser; chairman executive committee, United Artists
• Robert S. Pirie, Harold Hughes' chief fund raiser: Boston lawyer.
• Joseph Rosenfield, Harold Hughes' money man; retired Des Moines lawyer.
• Henry Rowen, president, Rand Corp., former assistant director of budget (LBJ)
• R. Sargent Shriver, Jr., former US. ambassador to France; lawyer, Strasser, Spiefelberg, Fried, Frank & Kempelman, Washington, D.C.; 1972 Democratic Party Vice Presidential candidate; former director of the Peace Corps
• Theodore Sorensen, lawyer, Weiss, Goldberg, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, New York.
• Ray Stark, Broadway producer.
• Howard Stein, president and director, Dreyfus Corporation.
• Milton Semer, chairman, Muskie Election Committee; lawyer, Semer and Jacobsen
• George H. Talbot, president, Charlotte Liberty Mutual Insurance Co. ; headed anti-Vietnam ad
• Arthur Taylor, vice president, International Paper Company [presently CBS president]
• Jack Valenti, president, Motion Picture Association.
• Paul Warnke, Muskie financial supporter, former assistant secretary of defense
• Thomas J. Watson, Jr., Muskie financial supporter; chairman, IBM

Academics

• Michael Ellis DeBakey, chairman, department of surgery, Baylor College of Medicine; surgeon-in-chief, Ben Taub General Hospital. Texas
• Derek Curtis Bok, dean, Harvard Law School
• Kingman Brewster, Jr., president, Yale University.
• McGeorge Bundy, president, Ford Foundation.
• Noam Chomsky, professor of linguistics, MIT
• Carl Djerassi, professor of chemistry, and co-inventor of the first oral contraceptive pill Stanford University
• Daniel Ellsberg, professor, MIT.
• George Drennen Fischer, member, executive committee. National Education Association
• J. Kenneth Galbraith, professor of economics, Harvard
• Patricia Harris, educator, lawyer, former US. ambassador; chairman welfare committee Urban League
• Walter Heller, regents professor of economics, University of Minnesota
• Edwin Land, inventor of instant photography.
• Herbert Ley, Jr., former FDA commissioner; professor of epidemiology, Harvard.
• Matthew Stanley Meselson, professor of biology, Harvard
• Lloyd N. Morrisett, professor and associate director, education program, University of California
• Joseph Rhodes, Jr., fellow, Harvard; member, Scranton commission on Campus Unrest
• Bayard Rustin, civil rights activist; director, A. Philip Randolph Institute, New York.
• David Selden, president, American Federation of Teachers.
• Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., professor of humanities, City University of New York
• Jeremy Stone, director, Federation of American Scientists
• Jerome Wiesner, president, MIT.
• Samuel M. Lambert, president, National Education Association