PUBLIC NUISANCES: Penn Kemble, RIP
Tyrrell, R. Emmet Jr.
PUBLIC NUISANCES R. EMMETT TYRRELL, JR. Penn Kemble, RIP A great Democrat has died. WASHINGTON HAT PAT MOYNIHAN ONCE CALLED the Party of Liberty lost one of its most energetic friends on...
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...He achieved great things for human rights and the dignity of working people but never drew attention to himself or did anything cheap...
...However, like his friend, the philosopher Sydney Hook, being a Democrat did not prevent him from vigorously fighting Communism...
...His toughness was behind all the political activities that filled his life along with his high intelligence...
...The last time I saw him on his feet was a few months before his death...
...That offended many of his fellow Democrats, but Penn was his own man...
...His mother, picking up her copy of the Times back home in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, was shocked...
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...CDM's efforts proved futile and liberal Democrats such as Jeane Kirkpatrick and William Bennett drifted to the Republican Party...
...To my astonishment, however, he was wearing a helmet...
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...He was competing at his favorite sport, handball...
...No one could ever question his courage, but he was an eminently reasonable man...
...for though he really was a tough guy he was always the perfect gent...
...In his college days in 1964, inspired by the civil rights cause and the cause of social democracy, he got himself pictured on the front page of the New York Times, blocking Triborough Bridge traffic in protest of school conditions in Harlem...
...He became a Scoop Jackson Democrat, campaigning for the pro-defense anti-Communist senator's doomed attempt to wrest the Democratic presidential nomination...
...In a city, Washington, and a pursuit, politics, where baseness is often the norm and too often the key to power and fame, Penn has been the soul of honor, intelligence, and all the virtues of the timeless liberal...
...In sum, I rise to say that Penn is one of the finest men I have known...
...There was a "tough guy" quality to his speech, which I always relished...
...Once the shrieks and whines of the present Democratic leadership is abjured, sensible Democrats will realize that Penn Kemble's life is the blueprint for the Democratic Party's return to relevance...
...Penn had a puckish sense of humor, but this was not one of his jokes...
...In all the years I knew Penn he kept everything in perspective...
...We never had a cross word in any disagreement...
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...WASHINGTON HAT PAT MOYNIHAN ONCE CALLED the Party of Liberty lost one of its most energetic friends on October 16 when Penn Kemble breathed his last after a valiant battle with brain cancer...
...Had the CDM taken control of the Democratic Party in the 1970s, it would have remained on the path hewn by Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman...
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...After an unexpected grand mal seizure, doctors had drilled into his skull and removed a tumor...
...In 1972 he was a founder of the Social Democrats, USA...
...Penn remained a Democrat to the displeasure of his old friends, who were now being called neoconservatives...
...Ever the friend of racial equality, labor unions, and all the elements of democracy, he moved to the more peaceful protests, not out of timorousness but out of his commitment to reasoned debate...
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...But he followed his conscience and continued to establish organizations opposing tyranny and intolerance worldwide...
...Doubtless that hurt Penn, but he was committed to the Democratic Party and the trade union movement...
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...He and his compatriots in the East River Congress of Racial Equality were about to be hauled off to the calaboose...
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...Penn was a very tough guy...
...The Democratic Party, too, lost a friend in Penn...
...Aware that the McGovernites were shanghaiing the Democratic Party into a lala land of anti-Americanism and narcissistic utopia, he became executive director of the Coalition for a Democratic Majority (CDM...
...There he would get to the business at hand, accomplishing it with a few gruff laughs thrown in...
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...That would not stop him from driving a handball 50 miles an hour on the court against those of us who wanted to beat him...
Vol. 38 • December 2005 • No. 10
