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- Oct. 08, 1990: Died:Lawrence O"Brien
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- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- Oct. 08, 1990 Do We Care About Our Kids?
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- <source>Time Magazine</source>
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- MILESTONES, Page 77
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- <p> DIED. Lawrence O'Brien, 73, veteran Democratic
- wheeler-dealer, John F. Kennedy's congressional liaison,
- Postmaster General under Lyndon Johnson and commissioner of the
- National Basketball Association from 1975 to 1984; of cancer;
- in New York City. Dubbed by Kennedy the "best election man in
- the business," O'Brien helped perfect the use of grass-roots
- voter registration drives, political teas, youthful volunteer
- workers and telephone banks, which have become staples of
- campaigning. During the second of O'Brien's two reigns as
- Democratic National Committee chairman, in 1972, men broke into
- his offices at Washington's Watergate complex. The subsequent
- scandal brought down Richard Nixon's presidency.
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