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Jewish World Review
Oct. 20, 2005
/ 17 Tishrei, 5766
A great Democrat has died
By
Bob Tyrrell
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What Pat Moynihan once called the Party of Liberty
lost one of its most energetic friends last Saturday when Penn Kemble
breathed his last breath after a valiant battle with brain cancer. The
Democratic Party, too, lost a friend in Penn. What kind of man was he? In
his college days in 1964, inspired by the civil rights cause and the cause
of social democracy, he got himself pictured on the front page of the New
York Times, blocking Triborough Bridge traffic in protest of school
conditions in Harlem. He and his compatriots in the East River Congress of
Racial Equality were about to be hauled off to the calaboose. His mother,
picking up her copy of the Times back home in Lancaster, Pa., was shocked.
She would not be shocked many more times by Penn. Ever the friend of racial
equality, labor unions and all the elements of democracy, he moved to the
more peaceful protests, not out of timorousness but out of his commitment to
reasoned debate. No one could ever question his courage, but he was an
eminently reasonable man.
The last time I saw him on his feet was a few months back. He
was competing at his favorite sport, handball. To my astonishment, however,
he was wearing a helmet. Was this one of his jokes? Penn had a puckish sense
of humor, but this was not one of his jokes. After an unexpected grand mal
seizure, doctors had drilled into his skull and removed a tumor. That would
not stop him from driving a handball fifty miles an hour on the court
against those of us who wanted to beat him. Penn was a very tough guy.
His toughness was behind all the political activities that
filled his life along with his high intelligence. In 1972 he was a founder
of the Social Democrats, USA. He became a Scoop Jackson Democrat,
campaigning for the pro-defense, anti-communist senator's doomed attempt to
wrest the Democratic presidential nomination. Aware that the McGovernites
were shanghaiing the Democratic Party into a lala land of anti-Americanism
and narcissistic utopia, he became executive director of the Coalition for a
Democratic Majority (CDM). Had the CDM taken control of the Democratic Party
in the 1970s, it would have remained on the path hewn by Franklin Roosevelt
and Harry Truman. It would have remained a vibrant center of American values
and avoided much of the foolishness that has led to its decline.
CDM's efforts proved futile, and liberal Democrats such as Jeanne
Kirkpatrick and William Bennett drifted to the Republican Party. Penn
remained a Democrat to the displeasure of his old friends, who were now
being called neoconservatives. Doubtless that hurt Penn, but he was
committed to the Democratic Party and the trade union movement. However,
like his friend, the philosopher Sydney Hook, being a Democrat did not
prevent him from vigorously fighting communism. He was with the Reagan
Administration heart and soul in advancing democracy in Central America.
That offended many of his fellow Democrats, but Penn was his own man. He
made neocons uneasy. He angered the Democratic elite. But he followed his
conscience and continued to establish organizations opposing tyranny and
intolerance worldwide. When the Clinton Administration made him deputy
director of the United States Information Agency it made a shrewd choice.
In all the years I knew Penn he kept everything in perspective.
In a city, Washington, and a pursuit, politics, where baseness is often the
norm and too often the key to power and fame, Penn has been the soul of
honor, intelligence, and all the virtues of the timeless liberal. He
achieved great things for human rights and the dignity of working people but
never drew attention to himself or did anything cheap. There was a "tough
guy" quality to his speech, which I always relished; for though he really
was a tough guy he was always the perfect gent.
We never had a cross word in any disagreement. We had many
ironic and amusing words. In sum, I rise to say that Penn is one of the
finest men I have known. He is one of the guys you would want with you in
the foxhole during any battle. There he would get to the business at hand,
accomplishing it with a few gruff laughs thrown in. Once the shrieks and
whines of the present Democratic leadership is abjured, sensible Democrats
will realize that Penn Kemble's life is the blueprint for the Democratic
Party's return to relevance.
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