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Writing about Hayden's role in the 1960s New Left, Nicholas Lemann, national correspondent for The Atlantic, said that " Tom Hayden changed America ", calling him " father to the largest mass protests in American history ", and Richard N. Goodwin, who was a speechwriter for presidents Lyndon B. Johnson and John F. Kennedy, said that Hayden, " without even knowing it, inspired the Great Society.

Staughton Lynd, though, was critical of the Port Huron and New Left concept of " participatory democracy " stating, " we must recognize that when an organization grows to a certain size, consensus decision-making is no longer possible and some form of representative government becomes necessary.