Word: aikens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Henry D. Aiken, professor of Philosophy, has criticized McGeorge Bundy, special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs, for his refusal to "acknowledge a special accountability" to the academic community on the subject of U.S. policy in Vietnam...
Within 48 hours, the appropriation was approved by both houses with enormous majorities. But some Congressmen were not very happy about it. Vermont's Republican Senator George Aiken insisted that his affirmative vote was by no means "an endorsement of the costly mistakes of the past." Oregon Democrat Wayne Morse, one of three Senators to vote nay (the others: Alaskan Democrat Ernest Gruening and Wisconsin Democrat Gaylord Nelson), seemed almost hysterical. "My government," he cried, "today stands before the world drunk with military power...
Other Harvard members of the Com- mittee include George H. Williams, Hollis Professor of Divinity; Henry D. Aiken, professor of Philosophy; Ralph F. Baierlcin '58, instructor in Physics; David F. Cavers, Fessenden Professor of Law; H. Stuart Hughes, professor of History; and Everett I. Mendelsohn, assistant professor of the History of Science
...hope," he said, "to enlist the sympathies of a broad spectrum of the faculties of universities and colleges in the greater Boston area." Aiken noted that the committee hoped to have a membership of several hundred soon...
...Aiken said that he felt the meeting's purpose was threefold. "In addition to replying to Rusk," he continued, "I think that we want to express our sense of the immense moral responsibility which rests upon the American government and people in the present situation...