Word: benjamin
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...Representatives from their own districts, as with a group of North Carolinians who called on Congressman James T. Broyhill. The lobbyists generally received polite audiences with their Representatives, and even some assurances of support for antiwar measures. Only occasionally did they confront a member like Georgia's Benjamin Blackburn, who argued briefly with a University of Minnesota law student and then snapped: "Get out of my damn office." The primary aim of the lobbyists was to help along the Hatfield-McGovern amendment (see page 16), which would require withdrawal of all U.S. forces from Viet Nam by June...
...Laura R. Benjamin '70, a spokesman for the Winthrop group, said the cur-rent participation is "too little to feel good about but too much to close down...
Coretta King, David Bellinger, Benjamin Spock and other matriarchs and patriarchs of the movement were there, along with newer personalities like Jane Fonda. Their audience was made up primarily of the instant army of the young, the mobile children who received basic protest training in the late '60s, who can travel light and fast for the peace movement and for their own enjoyment. Some 100,000 of them were there on the Ellipse just south of the White House...
Post editors agonized over and finally rejected one student they considered eminently qualified after he answered that he would go to jail rather than serve in the army. Executive Editor Benjamin C. Bradlee reportedly argued that this level of commitment mighthamper his journalistic objectivity. One editor later admitted that the person would have been hired. had he answered differently...
John K. Fairbank '29, Francis Lee Higginson Professor of History, and Benjamin I. Schwartz, professor of History and Government, attacked President Nixon's reasons for continuing the war in Indochina at an informal gathering in the Kirkland House JCR last night...