Ben Wattenberg, Nicholas Winton, Jack Carter: Obits This Week

This week’s notable deaths included a neoconservative Democrat who argued against his party’s move to the left after the Vietnam War; the man known as the “British Schindler” for saving Jewish children from Nazi concentration camps; and the stand-up comic whose caustic barbs aimed at politicians, celebrities and his own fans sustain him since the early days of U.S. television. Below are summaries of these obituaries.

Ben Wattenberg, 81. A speechwriter for President Lyndon Johnson, he was an author and host of a PBS television program about politics. In books such as “The Real Majority,” published in 1970, he unsuccessfully urged fellow Democrats to court white, middle-class, middle-aged voters. Instead, Republicans such as Richard Nixon won elections by appealing to the so-called silent majority. Died June 28 in Washington from complications of surgery.