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...more, therefore, liberals demanded that the United States simply withdraw. Some Americans were even beginning to understand the real alternatives before the Vietnamese people, and to say either that the Vietnamese people themselves would have to decide the question ("How many Vietnamese fought in our Civil War?" William Sloan Coffin demanded), or--the same thing made more explicit--that the NLF represented the vast majority of the Vietnamese people and deserved...
...wake of Magruder's testimony, TIME Boston Bureau Chief Sandra Burton interviewed Coffin. The chaplain does not find Magruder's arguments persuasive and still flunks him on ethics. "There was not very much on civil disobedience in the ethics course I taught," he says, "so poor old Jeb never learned to tell the difference between civil disobedience and violations of the Constitution by the Administration...
Although Magruder was only a middling student who did not do enough reading, Coffin says he was "very fond" of him. Indeed, he observes, "the real moral of this story may be that to do evil, you don't need to be a Bengal tiger. It is sufficient to be a tame tabby...
...many students in the 1950s was: 'You're a nice guy but not yet a good man. If you don't stand for something, you're apt to fall for nothing!' " Teacher and pupil corresponded until 1968 when, says Coffin, "Jeb joined forces with Goldwater, and I guess he thought I must have given...
Watergate, Coffin believes, may finally have forced Magruder into an encounter with himself, and he would like to renew the correspondence. "It would be interesting for the two of us to sit down and talk again...