(AP) – Fred Harris, a former US senator from Oklahoma, presidential hopeful and populist who championed Democratic Party reforms in the turbulent 1960s, died Saturday.
“I think it’s worked wonderfully,” Harris recalled in 2004, when he was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in Boston.
“It’s made the selection much more legitimate and democratic.”“The Democratic Party was not democratic, and many of the delegations were pretty much boss-controlled or -dominated.
Harris ran unsuccessfully for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1976, quitting after poor showings in early contests, including a fourth-place win in New Hampshire.
We had my Senate seatmate Robert Kennedy killed and then we had this terrible convention,” Harris said in 1996.
Persons:
– Fred Harris, Harris ’, Margaret Elliston, “ Fred Harris, ” Elliston, Harris, it’s, ” Harris, “ It’s, “, ”, Jimmy Carter, Fred, “ I’ve, Michelle Lujan Grisham, “ Sen, Lyndon Johnson, Lynn A, Curtis, Milton S, Norman Ornstein, ” Ornstein, Hubert Humphrey, Humphrey, Johnson, Republican Richard Nixon, Martin Luther King, Robert Kennedy, Oklahoma Sen, Fred R, Bob Daugherty, Sen, Robert S, Kerr, Howard Edmondson, — Charles “ Bud ” Wilkinson, LaDonna Vita Crawford, Byron, Laura
Organizations:
Democratic Party, Associated Press, Senate, Democratic National Committee, Democratic National Convention, African, Democratic, University of New, Democratic Party of New, Comanche, ” New, ” New Mexico Gov, National Advisory Commission, Civil Disorders, Kerner Commission, Eisenhower Foundation, American Enterprise Institute, Republican, Disorders, University of Oklahoma, J, OU
Locations:
Oklahoma, New Mexico, Corrales, Chicago, Boston, New Hampshire, University of New Mexico, Democratic Party of New Mexico, ”, ” New Mexico, Vietnam, Walters, Texas, Lawton
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