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<text id=90TT2675>
<title>
Oct. 08, 1990: Died:Lawrence O"Brien
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<history>
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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