What the losers won:

...service...

...It was, after all, the President Al Gore led students in Tennes- Gans, director of the Committee for the year of the assassinations of Martin Luther see...

...It was in wartime, and how important it was to anniversary of the McCarthy pres- the intent of the committee to illustrate take the protest from the streets into the idential campaign-a campaign, he this effect by recognizing especially the political process...

...may have spoken for all of them when she ernment and Citizenship at William and Serious and as issue-oriented as they said, "I was an activist before that camMary, has called "a political earthquake" have ever been, the reunited campaigners, paign but I am glad that my time in pubthat activated young people, women, and who had come from states as various and lic office came after it...

...ing them a vehicle for changing policy...

...Vice- and publisher of the New Republic, Curtis of that eventful year...

...Johnson, assistant to the president and di- cannot truly be "lost,"'it seems to me, howThe committee members who organ- rector of the Office of National Service, ever, if it had that effect on so many peoized the symposium elaborated on this Eli Segal, Congressman Don Edwards, ple...

...They dential campaign of 1968...

...OF SEVERAL MINDS Abigail McCarthy As they spoke, each seemed to recapture the feelings of a quarter century ago and the atmosphere of the time became alWHAT THE LOSERS WON most palpable to everyone in the rooma nation desperately divided, a peace THE McCARTHY CAMPAIGN OF '68 movement whose fringe groups were becoming ever more violent in demonstrations, young men going to prison or leaving "Yet, who would not have at least theme...

...Do we rememers the lost followers, and all things campaign "a unique experience" shared ber," said one of the speakers, "what it took being impossible were possible...

...A cause cultural factors...

...said, of "special fire" with a "reck- many McCarthy campaign workers who Other speakers that afternoon spoke of less purity" not seen since ("Mac- have continued their involvement in gov- the belief they had carried from 1968 Neil-Lehrer News Hour, " October ernmental and nongovernmental public that government could be an agency of 6, 1993...

...They included Yale law professor 0 n September 10 of this Post piece by Curtis Gans (December 20, Harlon Dalton, who had been a member year there was a sympo- 1987) have remained "liberal in values, of the National Commission on AIDS, sium at Georgetown Uni- disciplined in tactics, persuasive in ap- Jessica Tuchman Mathews, deputy unversity celebrating the proach," and productive of "substantive dersecretary for global affairs in the Detwenty-fifth anniversary changes...

...Hillary Rodham Clinton, for sented '68ers involved in service to sociin the murk and myth of the docudramas example, campaigned as a Wellesley ety, the third panel: Martin Peretz, editor and the journalistic and personal accounts college student in New Hampshire...

...facts of that campaign and its precedent- from state legislatures to the U.S...

...Many of the campaigners, said change, and of their efforts to see that it the announcement, quoting a Washington was...

...partment of State, and John Podesta, staff of that campaign-the McCarthy presi- The symposium recognized former secretary to President Bill Clinton...

...It recognized as equally important the Study of the American Electorate, and King, Jr., and Robert Kennedy, of the vi- campaigners who have led nongovern- Taylor Branch, chronicler of the civil olence at the Democratic convention in mental groups and organizations of sig- rights movement and also a Pulitzer PrizeChicago and the election of Richard nificant service to society and have winner...

...by students and adults that had a profound to issue a political challenge to a president Roger Rosenblatt, on the twenty-fifth effect on all who took part in it...

...They were historians, political sci- the country in protest of the draft, other one time in a life when the leader entists, legislators, and others who had young men mired thousands of miles from was the lost leader and the follow- participated in 1968, and they called the home in a hopeless war...

...It was appar- campaigners who are in office today from were not wholly hopeful but they had kept ent to the participants that the historical city governments to the White House, trying...

...D 8: 3 December 1993 Commonweal...

...Oregon, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Ken- Perhaps that difference had its roots in "They toppled a sitting chief executive, tucky, Massachusetts, Iowa, and Florida, Roger Rosenblatt's words about the effect cracked the foundation of the imperial pres- listened with concentration to, and held dis- of a lost cause, "What a lost cause does idency, and sensitized leaders from Lyndon cussions with the speakers on three pan- for the individual's soul is to free it from Johnson to Ronald Reagan to the enormous els...

...provided an important number of dedi- that panel, now director of the Madison But it was also the year of what George cated teachers in our colleges, universi- Institute and a long-time state legislator, Grayson, John Marshall Professor of Gov- ties, and law schools...

...The keynote panel on "Participatory everything but principle...

...I served then with other previously ignored groups by giv- far away as California and New York, an entirely different perspective...

...One does somecost of resorting to military solutions to and Movement Politics" was composed of thing because one believes it is right, there problems rooted in social, economic, and Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Haynes is no other reason for doing it...

...Midge Miller, the last speaker on Nixon...

...House The same was true of those who repremaking character have been largely lost and Senate...