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...Viet Cong are bad. But that doesn't make it right for me to be bad, or for someone to say that we should send their son, or their husband, or their brother to go over there to be just as vicious. It's unbelievable. People don't understand what that does to your mind. You go into a village that has had a 1,000-lb. bomb-it's called the daisy cutter-a 1,000-lb. bomb dropped on it. You don't worry about taking prisoners because there are no prisoners...
...Viet Nam's President Nguyen Van Thieu. Hanoi still insists on his departure, while the most that Washington has offered is that he would resign one month before elections were held. In recent weeks, U.S. Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker has reportedly urged Thieu to make overtures to the Viet Cong and neutralist elements that might be included in a future government, but any such suggestion has been met with blustery defiance. In a speech nominally aimed at the French but probably intended for the Americans, Thieu said, "I severely warn the colonialists against interfering in the internal affairs...
McCloskey, a close friend of Daly and the former employer of his two top assistants, neglected to mention it, but Harvard played a role quite as earnest as Dartmouth or Princeton in the ensuing hoopla. In a letter to Cong. John Erlenborn (R-Ill.), published in the Congressional Record, Daly detailed "educational and financial risks" which made private colleges such as Harvard gag at the plan. An aide to Greene later charged that the letter qualified as an overt act of lobbying...
...Yeah, that's one of the things he does. Daly acts as a conduit for information. He talks to me, talks to the Boss, writes to people, and does all the other things lobbyists do."--James P. Mooney, assistant to Cong, John Brademas (D-Ind.), (Brademas, who happened to be a member of the Conference Committee on the Higher Education bill, is a Harvard Overseer...
...Yeah, in that sense he is. He's the kind of fellow who I'd want to call if I had a question about universities, Harvard or others,"--Cong. Frank Thompson. (D.N.J...