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Most of the student groups which invited Wallace cited the need to allow expression of all views, no matter how unpopular. But Yale's Dwight Hall, a student religious and social service organization, contended that "the issue of academic freedom is not in contention...
Meeting before the two law school groups reached their decision, Dwight Hall's ten-man executive committee voted overwhelmingly not to invite the governor, on the grounds that "the crying need of the social crisis is understanding, and that Gov. Wallace would not provide that understanding." Dwight Hall announced that it would sponsor a series of lectures and forums on civil rights, with representation given to segregationist views...
...struggle than the vote would indicate. With federal expenses running close to $100 billion a year and the national debt above $300 billion, many businessmen and politicians argued that cutting taxes without a parallel reduction in spending was the height of fiscal irresponsibility. Among the critics was Dwight Eisenhower, who said last week that he supported a tax cut "only if the persistent and frightening increase in federal expenditures is halted in its tracks...
...committee action came as strong doubts about the treaty were being voiced. One influential doubter was former President Dwight Eisenhower, who wrote to the committee from Gettysburg endorsing the treaty but adding one hard reservation-"that in the event of any armed aggression endangering a vital interest of the U.S., this nation would be the sole judge of the kind and type of weaponry and equipment it would employ, as well as the timing of their...
...Pentagon's research and development chief, Dr. Harold Brown, a 36-year-old Whiz Kid who ran the Livermore Lab at 33, challenged Teller, noted that while he was "a dear personal friend of Edward's, in this case I disagree with him." But Lewis Strauss, Dwight Eisenhower's Atomic Energy Commission chairman for five years, seconded Teller. The treaty is "a clay pigeon," he said. "It is made to be breached. I think it will be breached to our disadvantage...