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Asked about academic freedom and professional tenure, Galbraith defended the right of both Henry Kissinger and Hilary Putnam to remain on the Faculty, citing his own past: "When I first became a professor, they held up my appointment for over a year, because I was too radical. My impression over about thirty years at Harvard is that it's the Left that has been generally protected by academic freedom. I owe my own presence here for about ten years to the fact that I couldn't be fired...
...Galbraith's auditors was skeptical about the professor's effectiveness in opposing the war, asking if the kind of opposition which consists of "big shots talking to other big shots" could work. "I don't consider myself a big shot, I don't usually use that term," said Galbraith. "A great, perceptive gentleman, that would be the phrase...
...Galbraith continued his remarks, Thomas Schelling, professor of Economics, emerged from the back door of the CFIA to find Galbraith and the marchers covering the white BMW. After a quick assessment of the situation, he made his move...
...Galbraith went on with his discourse. "Let me say just a word in defense of traditional liberalism. There were about five or six of us-Ernest Gruening, Waync Morse, myself-who first started the opposition to the war. We didn't have any help from the communists in those days, we didn't have any help from the left, we didn't have any help from the labor movement. I've been on George Meany's shitlist ever since for that. The labor unions pulled out of ADA when I became chairman, largely because of my stand...
...certainly not," Galbraith replies...