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Memorandum from Charles Colson to John Dean, with attached original "master list" of the "First Enemies List," September 9, 1971
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An original typed memorandum, dated September 9, 1971, from Charles Colson to John Dean which reads, “I have checked in blue those to whom I would give top priority. You might want to check someone else although I think you will find this is a pretty good list. Right on!,” together with a copy of Colson’s marked up list. The document groups approximately 220 individuals’ names under headings such as “Senators,” “12 Black Congressmen,” “Media,” etc. Check marks in blue ink appear next to a handful of the names on the list.
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Colson, Charles W.
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From 1973: Watergate: Dean, John, Separated Folder SEP-5528/75 in the Rufus Edmisten Papers #5528, Southern Historical Collection, Louis Round Wilson Special Collections Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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September 9, 1971
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English
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Text
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https://dc.lib.unc.edu/cdm/singleitem/collection/05ddd/id/471420
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THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
EYES ONLY
September 9, 1971
MEMORANDUM FOR: John Dean
FROM: Charles Colson
I have checked in blue those to whom I would give top
priority. You might want to check someone else al-
though I think you will find this is a pretty good list.
Right on!
---
POLITICOS
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
Bella Abzug
William R. Anderson
John Bradermas
Father Robert F. Drinan
Robert Kastenmeier
Wright Patman
---
POLITICOS CONTINUED:
12 BLACK CONGRESSMEN
Shirley Chisholm
William Clay
George Collins
John Conyers
Ronald Dellums
Charles Diggs
Augustus Hawkins
Ralph Metcalf
Robert N.C. Nix
Charles Rangel
Louis Stokes
MISCELLANEOUS POLITICOS
John V. Lindsay, Mayor, New York City
Eugene McCarthy, Former U.S. Senator
George Wallace, Governor, Alabama
----
ORGANIZATIONS
Black Panthers, Hughie Newton
Brookings Institution, Lesley Gelb
Business Executives Move for VN Peace – Henry Niles, Nat. Chmn, Vincent McGee, Jr., Committee for an Effective Congress, Russell D. Hemenway, Exec. Director
Common Cause, John Gardner, Morton Halperin, Charles Goodell, Walter Hickel
COPE, Alexander E. Barkan
Council for a Livable World, Bernard T. Feld, President; Prof. 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 Gottlief
Southern Christian Leadership, Ralph Abernathy
Third National Convocation on The Challenge of Building Peace, Robert v. Roosa, Chmn.
Businessmen’s Educational Fund
---
LABOR
Karl Feller, Pres. Internat. Union of United Brewery, Flour, Cereal, Soft Drink and Distillery Workers, Cincinatti
Harold J. Gibbons, International Vice Pres., Teamsters
A.F. Grospiron, Pres., Oil, Chemical & Atomic Workers International Union, Denver
Matthew Guinan, Pres., Transport Workers Union of America, New York City
Paul Jennings, Pres. Internat. Union of Electrical, Radio & Machine Workers, D.C.
Herman D. Kenin, Vice Pres., AFL-CIO, D.C.
Lane Kirkland, Secretary-Treasurer, AFL-CIO (but we must deal with him)
Frederick O’Neal, Pres., Actors and Artists of America, New York City
William Pollock, Pres., Textile Workers Union of America, New York City
Jacob Potofsky, General Pres., Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, New York
Leonard Woodcock, President, United Auto Workers, Detroit
Jerry Wurf, Internat. President, American Federal, State, County and Municipal Employees, Washington, D.C.
Add. Nathaniel Goldberger, 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
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
Pete Hamill, New York Post
Michael Harrington, author and journalist; Member, Executive Comm. Socialist Party
Sydney Harris, columnist; drama critic and writer of ‘Strictly Personal’, syndicated Publishers Hall
Robert Healy, Boston Globe
William Hines, Jr., journalist; science and education, Chicago Times
Stanley Karnow, foreign correspondent, Washington Post
Ted Knap, syndicated columnist, New York Daily News
Erwin Knoll, Progressive
Morton Kondracke, Chicago Sun Times
---
MEDIA CONTINUED:
Joseph Kraft, syndicated columnist, Publishers Hall
James Laird, Philadelphia Inquirer
Max Lerner, syndicated columnist, New York Post; author, lecturer, professor – Brandeis
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, L.A. 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
Gary Wills, syndicated columnist, author of “Nixon-Agonistes”
---
MEDIA CONTINUED:
The New York Times
Washington Post
St. Louis Dispatch
Jules Duscha, Washingtonian
Robert Maning, 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., Pres., Public Broadcasting Corporation; former Civil Service Comm.
Marvin Kalb, CBS
Daniel Schorr, CBS
Lem Tucker, NBC
Sander Vanocur, NBC
---
CELEBRITIES
Carol Channing, actress
Bill Cosby, actor
Jane Fonda, actress
Steve McQueen, actor
Joe Namath, New York Giants; businessman; actor
Paul Newman, actor
Gregory Peck, actor
Tony Randall, actor
Barbra Streisand, actress
Dick Gregory
---
BUSINESS
Clifford Alexander, Jr., Member, Equal Opportunity Comm; LBJ’s Spec. Assistant
Hugh Calkins, Cleveland lawyer, member, Harvard Corporation
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; Pres., Overview Group
Raymond Lapin, former Pres., FNMA; corporation executive
Robert McNamara, President, World Bank; former Secretary of Defense
Hans Morgenthau, former U.S. Attorney in New York City
Victor Palmieri, lawyer, business consultant, real estate exec., Los Angeles
Arnold Picker, Muskie’s chief fund raiser; Boston lawyer
Joseph Rosenfield, Harold Hughes’ money man; retired Des Moines lawyer
Henry Rowen, Pres., Rand Corp; former Asst. Director of Budget (LBJ)
R. Sargent Shriver, Jr., former US Ambassador to France; lawyer, Strasser, Spiegelberg, Fried, Frank & Kempelman, Washington, D.C.
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. Talbol, Pres., Charlotte Liberty Mutual Insurance Co. headed anti VN ad
Arthur Taylor, Vice President, International Paper Company
Jack Valenti, President, Motion Picture Association
Paul Warnke, Muskie financial supporter, former Asst. Secy. of Defense
Thomas J. Watson, Jr., Muskie financial supporter; Chmn, IBM
---
BUSINESS ADDITIONS
Business Executives Move for Vietnam Peace and New National Priorities:
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, Exec. 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 Cont.:
Morton Sweig, President, National Cleaning Contractors
Alan V. Tishman, Exec. VP, Tishman Realty & Construction Co., Inc.
Ira D. Wallach, President, Gottesman & Co., Inc.
George Weissman, President, Philip Morris Corp.
Ralph Weller, President, Otis Elevator Company
---
ACADEMICS
Michael Ellis De Bakey, Chmn., Dept. Surgery, Baylor University; 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
Avram Noam Chomsky, Professor of Modern Languages, MIT
Daniel Ellsberg, Professor, MIT
George Drennen Fischer, Member, Executive Committee, National Education Assn.
J. Kenneth Galbraith, Professor of Economics, Harvard
Patricia Harris, educator, lawyer, former US Ambassador; Chmn Welfare Committee Urban League
Walter Heller, Regents Professor of Economics, University of Minnesota
Edwin Land, Professor of Physics, MIT
Herbert Ley, Jr., former FDA Commissioner; Professor of Epidemiology, Harvard
Matthew Stanley Meselson, Professor of Biology, Harvard
Lloyd N. Morrisett, Professor and Associate Dir., Education Program, U. of Calif.
Joseph Rhodes, Jr., Fellow, Harvard; Member, Scranton Comm. On Campus Unrest
Bayard Rustin, civil rights activits [sic]; Dir., 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, Pres. National Education Assn.
WASHINGTON
EYES ONLY
September 9, 1971
MEMORANDUM FOR: John Dean
FROM: Charles Colson
I have checked in blue those to whom I would give top
priority. You might want to check someone else al-
though I think you will find this is a pretty good list.
Right on!
---
POLITICOS
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
Bella Abzug
William R. Anderson
John Bradermas
Father Robert F. Drinan
Robert Kastenmeier
Wright Patman
---
POLITICOS CONTINUED:
12 BLACK CONGRESSMEN
Shirley Chisholm
William Clay
George Collins
John Conyers
Ronald Dellums
Charles Diggs
Augustus Hawkins
Ralph Metcalf
Robert N.C. Nix
Charles Rangel
Louis Stokes
MISCELLANEOUS POLITICOS
John V. Lindsay, Mayor, New York City
Eugene McCarthy, Former U.S. Senator
George Wallace, Governor, Alabama
----
ORGANIZATIONS
Black Panthers, Hughie Newton
Brookings Institution, Lesley Gelb
Business Executives Move for VN Peace – Henry Niles, Nat. Chmn, Vincent McGee, Jr., Committee for an Effective Congress, Russell D. Hemenway, Exec. Director
Common Cause, John Gardner, Morton Halperin, Charles Goodell, Walter Hickel
COPE, Alexander E. Barkan
Council for a Livable World, Bernard T. Feld, President; Prof. 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 Gottlief
Southern Christian Leadership, Ralph Abernathy
Third National Convocation on The Challenge of Building Peace, Robert v. Roosa, Chmn.
Businessmen’s Educational Fund
---
LABOR
Karl Feller, Pres. Internat. Union of United Brewery, Flour, Cereal, Soft Drink and Distillery Workers, Cincinatti
Harold J. Gibbons, International Vice Pres., Teamsters
A.F. Grospiron, Pres., Oil, Chemical & Atomic Workers International Union, Denver
Matthew Guinan, Pres., Transport Workers Union of America, New York City
Paul Jennings, Pres. Internat. Union of Electrical, Radio & Machine Workers, D.C.
Herman D. Kenin, Vice Pres., AFL-CIO, D.C.
Lane Kirkland, Secretary-Treasurer, AFL-CIO (but we must deal with him)
Frederick O’Neal, Pres., Actors and Artists of America, New York City
William Pollock, Pres., Textile Workers Union of America, New York City
Jacob Potofsky, General Pres., Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, New York
Leonard Woodcock, President, United Auto Workers, Detroit
Jerry Wurf, Internat. President, American Federal, State, County and Municipal Employees, Washington, D.C.
Add. Nathaniel Goldberger, 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
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
Pete Hamill, New York Post
Michael Harrington, author and journalist; Member, Executive Comm. Socialist Party
Sydney Harris, columnist; drama critic and writer of ‘Strictly Personal’, syndicated Publishers Hall
Robert Healy, Boston Globe
William Hines, Jr., journalist; science and education, Chicago Times
Stanley Karnow, foreign correspondent, Washington Post
Ted Knap, syndicated columnist, New York Daily News
Erwin Knoll, Progressive
Morton Kondracke, Chicago Sun Times
---
MEDIA CONTINUED:
Joseph Kraft, syndicated columnist, Publishers Hall
James Laird, Philadelphia Inquirer
Max Lerner, syndicated columnist, New York Post; author, lecturer, professor – Brandeis
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, L.A. 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
Gary Wills, syndicated columnist, author of “Nixon-Agonistes”
---
MEDIA CONTINUED:
The New York Times
Washington Post
St. Louis Dispatch
Jules Duscha, Washingtonian
Robert Maning, 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., Pres., Public Broadcasting Corporation; former Civil Service Comm.
Marvin Kalb, CBS
Daniel Schorr, CBS
Lem Tucker, NBC
Sander Vanocur, NBC
---
CELEBRITIES
Carol Channing, actress
Bill Cosby, actor
Jane Fonda, actress
Steve McQueen, actor
Joe Namath, New York Giants; businessman; actor
Paul Newman, actor
Gregory Peck, actor
Tony Randall, actor
Barbra Streisand, actress
Dick Gregory
---
BUSINESS
Clifford Alexander, Jr., Member, Equal Opportunity Comm; LBJ’s Spec. Assistant
Hugh Calkins, Cleveland lawyer, member, Harvard Corporation
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; Pres., Overview Group
Raymond Lapin, former Pres., FNMA; corporation executive
Robert McNamara, President, World Bank; former Secretary of Defense
Hans Morgenthau, former U.S. Attorney in New York City
Victor Palmieri, lawyer, business consultant, real estate exec., Los Angeles
Arnold Picker, Muskie’s chief fund raiser; Boston lawyer
Joseph Rosenfield, Harold Hughes’ money man; retired Des Moines lawyer
Henry Rowen, Pres., Rand Corp; former Asst. Director of Budget (LBJ)
R. Sargent Shriver, Jr., former US Ambassador to France; lawyer, Strasser, Spiegelberg, Fried, Frank & Kempelman, Washington, D.C.
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. Talbol, Pres., Charlotte Liberty Mutual Insurance Co. headed anti VN ad
Arthur Taylor, Vice President, International Paper Company
Jack Valenti, President, Motion Picture Association
Paul Warnke, Muskie financial supporter, former Asst. Secy. of Defense
Thomas J. Watson, Jr., Muskie financial supporter; Chmn, IBM
---
BUSINESS ADDITIONS
Business Executives Move for Vietnam Peace and New National Priorities:
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, Exec. 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 Cont.:
Morton Sweig, President, National Cleaning Contractors
Alan V. Tishman, Exec. VP, Tishman Realty & Construction Co., Inc.
Ira D. Wallach, President, Gottesman & Co., Inc.
George Weissman, President, Philip Morris Corp.
Ralph Weller, President, Otis Elevator Company
---
ACADEMICS
Michael Ellis De Bakey, Chmn., Dept. Surgery, Baylor University; 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
Avram Noam Chomsky, Professor of Modern Languages, MIT
Daniel Ellsberg, Professor, MIT
George Drennen Fischer, Member, Executive Committee, National Education Assn.
J. Kenneth Galbraith, Professor of Economics, Harvard
Patricia Harris, educator, lawyer, former US Ambassador; Chmn Welfare Committee Urban League
Walter Heller, Regents Professor of Economics, University of Minnesota
Edwin Land, Professor of Physics, MIT
Herbert Ley, Jr., former FDA Commissioner; Professor of Epidemiology, Harvard
Matthew Stanley Meselson, Professor of Biology, Harvard
Lloyd N. Morrisett, Professor and Associate Dir., Education Program, U. of Calif.
Joseph Rhodes, Jr., Fellow, Harvard; Member, Scranton Comm. On Campus Unrest
Bayard Rustin, civil rights activits [sic]; Dir., 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, Pres. National Education Assn.