Major Presidential Candidates Urged to Publicly Reject Biased Clubs

The American Jewish Committee appealed today to the five major Presidential candidates to publicly announce their “disaffiliation” from social clubs that practice discrimination, to resign from any such clubs of which they might be members and to disapprove the holding of functions at such clubs during the political conventions.

The request was made in identical telegrams sent by Morris B. Abram, president of the AJCommittee to Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey, Sen. Eugene J. McCarthy, former Vice President Richard M. Nixon, Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller of New York and Gov. Ronald Reagan, of California. The telegram said that “Americans would welcome the knowledge that you affirm the moral and social responsibility to withhold sanction of discriminatory barriers implied by membership in such clubs” and organizations “which discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color or national origin.”