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...four students were killed during a demonstration at Kent State University in Ohio. In that tragic week, the President acknowledged that he needed direct lines of communication with the nation's campuses. He soon enlisted two highly regarded university administrators, Chancellor Alexander Heard of Vanderbilt and President James Cheek of largely black Howard University, as ambassadors to the White House from academe...
During two months of lengthy meetings with Nixon and top members of the Administration, Heard, as the President's special adviser, and Cheek, as Heard's consultant, offered the President some unvarnished advice, and last week the substance of it was made public. Nixon and the students, they said, are not talking the same language. The students who disagree with the President's policies do so out of deep and sincere conviction, they reported, and if he is to lead the nation successfully, he ignores them at his peril...
Bark Off. In a 40-page memorandum released by the White House, Heard and Cheek made a twofold plea to the President. He should take serious steps to increase his awareness of the genuine concerns of his two most alienated constituencies, the young and the blacks. And he should make it clear to both groups that he not only understands their views but also takes them into account in making national policy, even if he disagrees with what they have...
Since the Heard-Cheek critique gave it to the President with the bark off, why did Nixon make it public? One White House aide suggests: "Maybe it was to indicate that he is willing to listen, and is not ashamed of the fact that he's listening...
Understanding Parameters. On many counts, there is evidence that Nixon is indeed listening. One Heard-Cheek recommendation was that the President should give special responsibility to a senior White House staff member for liaison with higher education; Nixon has already designated Robert Finch, the former Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, to carry out that task. Finch is one of Nixon's more liberal counsellors. Heard and Cheek proposed that Nixon give special aid to colleges primarily serving black youth; last week Finch announced that funds in the new federal budget for those purposes will be increased from...