He takes enormous pride in the effectiveness of the American Jewish Committee. and in the hardearned respect accorded AJC by political friend and foe alike. I will always remember Bookies poignant rumination on what an organization like AJC might have accomplished in the Hitler era. Let me quote from one of his speeches: If in the late thirties and early forties we had developed the lobbying effectiveness and the coalitional bonds that we have todaythe ability to muster 70 or 80 Senators. 300 or 400 Congressmen. to express their collective anguish and their collective demands when Israel is threatened or when Soviet Jewry needs special supportif we had had that kind of community capability. for example. to press Roosevelt and his White House associates to spare a single plane to bomb the railroad tracks to Auschwitzor to open our doors to more refugeesyes. it is painful to ask. how many of those 6 million might have been spared? Senator HOWARD METZENBAUM has referred to Hyman Bookbinder as the "101st Senator." That appellation. it seems to me. honors the Senate as much as it does Hyman Bookbinder. Mr.
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