Word: citizenship
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...George Wallace called the retaliatory riots "disgraceful," and said the President's statement "only tends to aggravate and inflame." He claimed the use of Federal Troops in Birmingham would be unconstitutional. King thought Kennedy's remarks showed the Administration "is willing to take forthright action to preserve [Negro] citizenship rights...
...rating of professorial freedom to teach and discuss politics is well up from the McCarthy era, but the association's respected president, Princeton Economist Fritz Machlup, questions some limitations left over from then. In relating national loyalty to scholarly integrity, he wants to keep clear the distinction between citizenship and scholarship. As citizens, professors must obey the law like everyone else, but as scholars, "professors have only one obligation: to search for truth and speak the truth as they...
...scholars insist on carrying the ideal of freedom this far. In 1953, Yale's President A. Whitney Griswold argued in a landmark statement that a professor must have both "integrity and independence" and the "affirmative obligation of being diligent and loyal in citizenship." Captive scholarship was just as far from his mind as from Machlup's, but he meant to make it clear that professors must defend the country in time of danger...
...often racially mixed. In actuality, this definition means that practically no American of any country can claim African heritage without at the same time claiming to be at least part Negro. An American without Negro ancestry can join the club, according to its spokesmen, only by taking up citizenship in a "free" African state; this, like all the definitions above, is clearly a criterion for membership which discriminates on the basis of racial background...
...Stood Together." For the President, perhaps the most pleasurable occasion of the week was in presiding over the ceremony in which honorary U.S. citizenship was conferred on Britain's Sir Winston Churchill. In the White House flower garden, Kennedy paid high tribute to Churchill: "Indifferent himself to danger, he wept over the sorrows of others. A child of the House of Commons, he became its father. Accustomed to the hardships of battle, he had no distaste for pleasure. Now his stately ship of life, having weathered the severest storms of a troubled century, is anchored in tranquil waters...