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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Friday, September 20,1968
James Logan now in private practice
by Rebecca Massey Kansan Staff Reporter
James K. Logan, whose parents didn't even own a car until he was a junior in high school, sat surrounded by books and family photographs in his plush, paneled and carpeted office of the Tower Building, Olathe, Kansas.
James K. Logan Practicing law in Olathe.
Logan, former dean of the KU School of Law, turned in his resignation this spring, which became effective July 1. Then he ran for U.S. Senator in the Democratic primary and lost.
He is now a practicing lawyer in the Payne and Jones professional corporation, a ten-man firm in Johnson County, "the fastest growing county in the state," according to Logan.
"Private practice is a different life—much quieter in a sense. I'm a corporate tax and estate lawyer dealing with decedents estates. These are also the areas in which I taught. They're very technical but I have a statutory mind—I absorb detailed laws and regulations better than most people. I think they're some of the same characteristics a good senator needs to have."
r ett dean's position was political
Logan felt his position as dean was in a sense a political one.
"You've got to keep all the constituents happy," he said.
"Eight to ten years is about all a person can be effective as dean."
Also, he was coming to the choice of being an administrator or working in law.
In his words, "Being an administrator never appealed to me that much. The only thing that ever competed for my affection for law was politics." And he felt the best way to prepare for a political life was to go into private practice.
Asked if he originally planned to run for public office this year, Logan said, "In a sense it was impulsive. A few days after Martin Luther King's assassination I decided to run for office. I saw Bill Robinson running in the
Democratic primary for the Senate and I knew there was a tremendous array of opposition."
Logan was also a strong supporter of Robert F. Kennedy. In fact, if Kennedy had been elected, Logan would have been his farm adviser. After Kennedy's assassination Logan said, "I was emotionally involved at that time. If these people weren't to have dined in vain then qualified people should do something. On June 10 I filed for office with no press conference, no financial support or organization."
Race definitely worthwhile
"I knew the task I faced, but I felt the race was worthwhile. We had seven weeks before the primary. The last six weeks I spent on the road, 6-7 days a week trying to convince Democrats I didn't have two heads. We almost carried it off. If I had gotten in a month earlier we would have won—if my opponent had spent a little less money; fantastic costs were involved. I was prepared for not winning—less disappointed than my followers. I thought I was going to win during the campaign, but was prepared to lose."
Asked if he would run again for the Senate or the Kansas gubernatorial, he was vague in answering. "I've got a good-sized deficit from this campaign—$10,000. It will take a while to pay that off. Friends, law school classmates, professors helped me, but I can't depend on them again. In order to run there would have to be some other source of money. You can't go into a campaign lightly, and I won't be out of the hole two years from now."
According to Mrs. Carrie Feinstein, Logan's press secretary during his campaign, the Democratic party wants him to run for governor in two years. But Mrs. Feinstein would like to see him in the Senate. "Jim is a fascinating man—terribly bright. He needed and wanted to run for the Senate. He is an egoist, but he has to be to be good. He's bright and he knows it. He strikes you with a warmth and sincerity. He looks, watches, and learns. He will win the next time. He was obviously disturbed—disappointed that he had lost the election. He's coming back—the man is too good and too needed not to run."
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And Logan said, "I suppose I'll run if I feel the state and country need me. It depends on whether I can afford to do it financially, how well I like private practice, and how much my family needs me."
Vietnam the situation there will have changed. "If the war is still going on four years from now, the people will throw the President out on his ear," he said.
Logan will be going to Stanford to teach as a visiting professor in the spring semester. The contract was signed last year before he knew he was going to be in politics. Had he won the senatorial election he would have been released from contract, but now they insist that he come.
If he did run again he would keep his present farm policy, which calls for elimination of acreage and production controls for farmers. In Vietnam, he says, "I'm convinced that we've made a mistake. We ought to gradually withdraw. We've got to make the South Vietnamese negotiate realistically—take over their own war. We are the Big Brother image—fighting, negotiating, controlling." But he believes by the time he is once again able to state his political position on
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