Word: defend
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Morgan went into a digression about international corporatism as the greatest enemy to individual freedoms, and said he would not defend corporate rights even though they are legally defined just the same as individual rights: "No Supreme Court is ever going to convince me that a corporation is an individual. I didn't have to watch Allende's death to learn what multinational corporations are doing...
...students took issue with Morgan. Only one--at an evening session at Mather House--actively argued for Harvard's side. He asked whether Morgan would defend President Nixon, if requested. "Yes," Morgan replied, "if he had come to me before I got involved with the other side...
...seats and can be defeated with strong campaigns. All that demonstrating will do is create a backlash reaction in the electorate. The issue will change from the U.S.'s role in Southeast Asia to whether student demonstrators are threatening the fabric of American society. Faced with the prospect of defending sometimes violent demonstrators, many liberals will either defend them and go down to defeat, or swing to the right. The only way to bring the war to an end is to try to elect an anti-war majority in Congress...
Ford has a right to speak and defend his views, but students have a right to picket and express theirs. They should use that right today. It is important to show that cleanliness is no substitute for godliness, that sanitized imperialism and inequality still merit opposition, and that opposition to this country's present leadership extends beyond opposition to this country's present leader...
...Congress finally voted to stop the bombing, it was almost exclusively with Democratic votes. "Ford may be a plodder," the 1974 Almanac of American Politics noted, citing the votes on Cambodia, "but he is nevertheless an effective, competent minority leader." After his appointment as vice president, Ford continued to defend his record on civil rights (citing his support for the Philadelphia Plan to hire more blacks as a partial counterbalance) and on foreign policy, which he says should be bipartisan and so presumably exempt from far-reaching criticism. "That bipartisanship deteriorated in 1971 and '72 as far as Vietnam...