https://declassified.library.utoronto.ca/files/original/65feeac888da09a058a06f2906dbae88.pdf 32ba39c8a492170982ed98b665adfe78 PDF Text Text y? J cument disclosed un>der the^AZcfejs faflnfofipation Adt id u\tder thepAtpkss fa/i acces a {'information / 4jfopument divulgue er »n vertu d&a Loi sur Tc D E P A R T M E N T O F E X T E R N A L AFFAIifes. B£Bt Subject. Date '•' £Bk..WM Publication.. NEW YORK TIMES Goldberg Announces a Group to Oppose the ABM Speoial to The New York Times directly with members of Con- clude Whitney Young Jr., direc the bipartisan nature of the efWASHINGTON, April 17 — gress to persuade them to vote tor of the Urban League; Ariay fort and are supporting its Formation of a national citizens against appropriations for the Miller, vice chairman of the goal. committee to oppose President missille system. Ford Motor Company; W. Mr. Goldberg proposed that Nixon's play for deployment It was understood that af- Averell Harriman, former Gov- President Nixon defer action of a modified antiballistic miss- filiated groups were being or- ernor of New York and Ambas- on the missile system while a ile system was announced to- ganized on a number of college sador to the Soviet Union; Dr. special commission of experts day by two.prominent Demo- campuses and that additional Donald Hornig, science adviser conducted a study. During such crats. committees of military men, to President Johnson; and Rein- an interval, he said, arms talks They are Arthur J. Gold- businessmen, scientists and hold Niebuhr, the theologian. with the Soviet Union could berg, former Associate Justice others opposed to the ABM . The formal name of the group begin. of the United States Supreme would be announced in coming is National Citizens Committee Mr. Goldberg was asked if . Court and Ambassador to the weeks. Concerned About Deployment ofjKse committee" might not be United Nations, and Roswell Goldberg, asked to identi- the ABM. Its office is at 18 East given a political cast by report? Gilpatric, former- Deputy Sec- fy Mr. that he was planning to run one or more Republicans 48th Street, New York. retary of Defense. the committee members, During the committee's for- for the Senate next yar against Both men denied, however, among was unable to do so, but there mation,, some Republican critics Senator Charles E. Goodell of that their effort was a political were several whose politics he of the ABM were wary of the New York.. move by Democrats to lure said he could not identify, in- group, as a launching pad for Without himself out Republican critics of the ABM cluding Dr. Herbert York, a Senator Kennedy. Some of of "possibletaking contention, the program into opposition to their Pentagon official during the. them, such as Senator Jacob Democrat replied: "I'm basicalown President. Mr. Goldberg Eisenhower Administration. K. Javits of New York, have ly out of politics. I've neve/' specifically criticized plans of been convinced, .however, of run f&r public office." . / the Republican National Com- Others on the committee inmittee to campaign for Mr Nixon's program. "I decry that," the former diplomat^ declared. "The great issues of public policy ought not to be reduced to the denominator of.partisan politics. There is no politics in this issue at all." Independent of Kennedy Mr, Goldberg also said the committee was operating independently of Senator Edward M. Kennedy, Democrat of Massachusetts. Republican supporters of the Nixon ABM plan have been suggesting hat Senator Kennedy was organizing the opposition in order to further a Presidential bid in 1972." The idea for such a group was conceived last month at a meeting in New York by Richard Goodwin, and William Vanden Heuvel, former advisers of President Kennedy. The meeting was called by Representative Jonathan B. Bingham, Democrat of the Bronx. The list of eleven sponsoring committee members made public today at a news conference in the Mayflower Hotel, b-ver, included no real "Kennedy names," andtwo of the principal staff contacts listed were 1968 campaign associates of Senator Eugene J. McCarthy of Minnesota. Mr. Goldberg said the group would undertake a public education campaign and also wor] 000269 � Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context CDBM00222 Title A name given to the resource Transcript from NYT Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 4/18/1969 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived RG25-A-3-c, file 27-11-7, "DEFENCE - CONVENTIONAL AND NUCLEAR ARMAMENTS - ANTI - BALLISTIC MISSILES (ABM) = DEFENSE - ARMEMENTS DE TYPE CLASSIQUE ET NUCLEAIRE - ENGINS ANTIMISSILES (ABM)," vol. 10357, part 6, Library and Archives Canada, (LAC). 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