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Other tart criticisms were offered by two of Johnson's White House intellectuals, the University of Texas' Walt Rostow and Brandeis' John Roche. Rostow said that the Pentagon researchers had exercised a "most egregious extraction out of context" of his "hundreds of memos on Southeast Asia." Newspapers, he contended, had further distorted the perspective. "If a student here at Texas were to turn in a term paper where the gap between data and conclusions was as wide as that between the Pentagon study and the newspaper stories, he would expect to be flunked." Roche scoffed at the study as "third...
...committee avoided any criticism of the overall thrust of the program. Instead, it zeroed in on the transposition of quotations and out-of-context quotes from a Pentagon official, and a colonel who is now suing CBS for $6 million...
...drop of a hat-or less-adrenaline-fueled lawyers cry out that theirs is a "political trial." This seems to mean in today's context, to some, that rules of evidence, canons of ethics and codes of professional conduct-the necessity for civility-all become irrelevant...
...mission in Vietnam had long been a calculated, cynical enterprise; despite claims of protecting a "legitimate" government from aggressive Communism, the American goal there had become a frankly neocolonial one. For Kissinger, revolutionary ideology-no matter what its justification-was at best irrelevant and at worst harmful in the context of international conflict; to him, revolution meant not a change in the human condition but a clouding of the prospects for stability...
...that their views are shared at Harvard. At other universities (the University of Illinois at Urbana is the most recent example) since then, other similar government-orchestrated sessions have been prevented from taking place. The Harvard administration's response has been to take the action entirely out of this context and to simply cite violations of the freedoms of students to invite and hear speakers, and speakers to be heard, in the University. Opinions reasonably differ on the question whether either of these freedoms was, given the situation, wrongly abridged by the protesters; but the intentions of the disrupters...