Word: antiwar
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Nevertheless, it was approved, Magruder continued, mainly because many of the Nixon aides had become frustrated in sticking to legal means while dealing with antiwar groups. Magruder thought these activists had been using illegal tactics in demonstrating against the war and were preventing the President from ending the war as quickly as he wished. Magruder explained that at Williams he had taken a course in ethics from the Rev. William Sloane Coffin Jr. (see box), and "he was quoted the other day as saying, 'Well, I guess Mr. Magruder failed my course in ethics,' and I think...
...agreed with Coffin that, because of Watergate, he could be said to have failed the course. But he argued that Coffin's own antiwar activities helped him justify his misdeeds...
...points out that at the placid Williams campus in the 1950s, there were no civil rights or antiwar protests to teach the meaning of ethics. "Values are not so much taught as caught. Without the experience it's pretty hard for the ethics to sink in. Your education is largely a game of intellectual volleyball...
...lumping all lawbreakers together. By that way of thinking, Jesus and Jimmy Hoffa are two of a kind. He has never examined the possibility that sometimes there is no way to test the constitutionality of a law except to disobey it. You could say that however pathetic our [antiwar] efforts were, we were trying to keep the nation under law or under God, whereas
...onward into the walled-in offices of academia. Coleman is a labor economist (among his books is Labor Problems, 1953), but the idea of actually going out and doing physical labor first occurred to him three years ago when he heard about the clash between hardhat construction workers and antiwar student demonstrators on Wall Street. "That terrified me," Coleman recalls. "I began to see there was tremendous arrogance among higher education professionals. We get a very distorted view of ourselves and become very intolerant of other points of view...