Bunting, Chayes, Wald Join National Group Supporting McGovern

University faculty members from across the country, including Mary I. Bunting, President of Radcliffe, announced their support for the Presidential candidacy of Sen. George McGovern (D-S.D.) at a press conference in Washington yesterday.

Other Harvard faculty members who announced their support for McGovern were John Kenneth Galbraith, Warburg Professor of Economics; George Wald, Higgins Professor of Biology; Frank B. Freidel. professor of History: Harvey G. Cox, professor of Divinity: and Abram J. Chayes, professor of Law.

Also announced at the press conference was the formation of 125 faculty committees for McGovern at colleges and universities across the country.

In declaring his support for McGovern, Galbraith said. "He is the best bet by far to put the Pentagon back in its place. We owe him a great debt on Vietnam. He is in no way mortgaged to the four-year locusts of American democracy, the big New York and Texas moneybags who place their bets on whatever contenders will most reward them."

Wald, one of three Nobel Prize winners endorsing McGovern, called the Senator "a breath of fresh air." "All over the country college administrators are congratulating each other that this was a quiet year, when in reality it is not the quiet feeling that our problems are being attended to; it is the quiet of despair." he said. Wald added that "vot-ing doesn't matter unless one is offered a real choice. George McGovern offers a choice."

Among those present at the press conference were Yale Chaplain William Sloan Coffin and historians Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. '38, and Henry Steele Commager Jr., '54. Commager called McGovern "intellectually one of the ablest figures in American politics. He has never wavered or wobbled on the war."

Schlesinger said that "as a historian I am for my fellow historian George McGovern for President because I believe that historians-Roosevelt, Wilson, and Kennedy-make good Presidents. As a citizen I am for him because I believe he has been right and right earlier than most in politics and most in our time."

Bunting was unable to attend yesterday's press conference; she announced her support in a letter to McGovern. She was out of town yesterday and could not be reached for comment.