the group gained a large and distinguished membership, including Democratic senators John F. Kennedy, Mike Mansfield, and Hubert H. Humphrey, Republican senators Karl Mundt and William Knowland, academics such as Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., Wesley Fishel, and Samuel Eliot Morison, and even American Socialist Party leader Norman Thomas. Still more impressive was its roster of media barons: Whitelaw Reid, editor of the New York Herald Tribune; Walter Annenberg, publisher of The Philadelphia Inquirer; Malcolm Muir, publisher of Newsweek; William Randolph Hearst, Jr., of the New York
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