Theory Into Action: By Larry Bush, Higher Education Reporter, Ann Arbor News, June 7, 1971: Dr. Arnold S. Kaufman, UCLA philosophy professor and former member of the University of Michigan philosophy department, was among those reported killed when a Marie jet collided with an Air West DC-9 passenger plane Sunday over California. Kaufman, internationally known social and political philosopher who transformed theory into action as a founder of the first anti-war teach-in, the "Dump" President Johnson movement, and prime organizer of the New Democratic Coalition, was on his way to a conference in Salt Lake City, UT at the time of the accident. Joining the U-M faculty in 1955 after teaching at Columbia University and the City College of New York, he left Ann Arbor in May, 1969, to accept appointment as professor of philosophy at the California institution. Donald J. Munro, U-M associate professor of philosophy and a former colleague of Kaufman said today "he was most significantly a philosopher and student of social and political philosophy who was a careful scholar, paying close attention to the facts in the positions he maintained, and transferring them into practice. "Dr. Kaufman was far from being an ivory tower intellectual, and was able to bring to courses a realistic picture few others have been able to bring on how political processes really operate because of his own activity in political movements. He also was one of the most selfless people I have ever known," Munro said. Author of the book "the Radical Liberal" which was published in 1967 and is said to be Vice President Agnew's source of the term, Kaufman also authored with Prof. William Frankena the book "Freedom of the Will" and was the author of numerous articles. He had been a strong opponent of the investigations of the House Committee on UN-American Activities, and spoke in opposition throughout the United States. Active locally and nationally in the Democratic Party, he originally was active in supporting former President Johnson for election, but was one of the first to turn against him over the Vietnam War. Speaking widely on the theme that the US government was "playing politics" on the Southeast Asia issue and negotiations, he was a founder of the first national teach-in the same year. A founder of the "dump Johnson" movement prior to the 1968 Democratic Convention, he also was a prime mover with Julian Bond and IAW leader Paul Schrade in organizing the New Democratic Coalition. Kaufman was also active in civil rights activities, being a long-time member of the local National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) board. Born on Sep 14, 1927, in Hartford, CT, he was graduated from the City College of New York in 1949 and received his doctor of philosophy degree from Columbia University in 1953. From 1953-54 he studied at the London School of Economics, and was a Fulbright Scholar at England's Oxford University from 1954-55. He joined the U-M philosophy department as an instructor, was promoted to assistant professor in 1958, to associate professor in 1962, and to full professor in 1968. During World War II, he served in the US Navy for two years. Survivors include his wife, Betty, of Ann Arbor; their two children, Margaret, 13, and William, 2; his mother, Mrs. Norma Gofbery in Florida; a brother, Jerome Kaufman, Chicago city planner.