Word: coffin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When he isn't off on some twentieth century crusade, Coffin tries to spend about four hours a day dispensing hard-headed advice to those who seek his counsel. He also thinks a lot. Early this summer he found himself "kind of in a funk" thinking about Vietnam...
...After talking it over with quite a few people, I finally decided that the whole China question would be the place to start." Coffin whipped up a draft of his ideas and sent it around to an impressive list of selected political thinkers in and out of the government...
...Coffin's reaction was to plan out a brand new, yet un-publicized movement tabbed "Americans for Reappraisal of Far Eastern Policy...
...purposes of this organization," explains Coffin, "is not so much to push for a specific new policy as to clarify the fundamental differences of present policy. It is a program with a large educational content and a minimum of direct action. What we are seeking to do is reach the widest segment of the public as possible...
...Although Coffin hopes to form a broadly based movement of moderates (he is busily enlisting a long mast-head of distinguished sponsors), he feels that the organization must start from the campus...