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...dealing with antiwar groups. Magruder thought these activists had been using illegal tactics in demonstrating against the war and were preventing the President from ending the war as quickly as he wished. Magruder explained that at Williams he had taken a course in ethics from the Rev. William Sloane Coffin Jr. (see box), and "he was quoted the other day as saying, 'Well, I guess Mr. Magruder failed my course in ethics,' and I think he is correct ... He tells me my ethics are bad. Yet he was indicted for criminal charges. He recommended on the Washington Monument...
Such was the catalogue description of one of the last courses Jeb Stuart Magruder took at Williams College. It was taught by William Sloane Coffin Jr., who became chaplain of Yale later that year. Ordinarily, courses of this kind are soon largely forgotten by student and teacher alike. But 15 years later, this one was injected into national politics. Under tight control for most of his testimony before the Ervin committee, Magruder grew momentarily impassioned when he recalled the experience...
...agreed with Coffin that, because of Watergate, he could be said to have failed the course. But he argued that Coffin's own antiwar activities helped him justify his misdeeds...
...this realization can in no way mitigate his fate: His actions still stand, he is still responsible. The film cuts sharply from this moment to the airport where his flag-draped coffin rides an escalator into a USAF jet as his widow and children watch tearfully. The camera moves slowly to the adjacent terminal. Descending there is a man whom, the audience recognized instantly: Santore's assistant from Washington. As Santore leaves in a coffin, his replacement is welcomed to Uruguay in a grisly replay of Santore's own arrival only a year before. The message is clear and irrefutable...
...authorities agreed to drop all charges against the baroness, and they even provided a coffin for her husband. Then new problems kept arising. Grave diggers who came to prepare the baron's final resting place were driven off by a swarm of bees...