Word: goldberg
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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They told him that they wanted to see a debate between Goldberg and an anti-war Faculty member. But this was not essential; what was essential, they said, was the opportunity to pursue questions. They did not want to see Goldberg, like a professor answering questions in a large lecture hall, move from one raised hand to another without ever having a prolonged exchange...
Monro also pressed them, to their annoyance, on whether they would use "disruptive" tactics if Goldberg did not meet their demands. Monro urged them to pledge that they would not disrupt the visit. The Faculty is adamant, he said, on guaranteeing the rights of visitors; "disruptive" demonstrations would be met by severe disciplinary action...
Monro the next day told Neustadt and Ford what had happened; they decided that Neustadt should pass it on to Goldberg. Under the circumstances, they thought it likely that he would decide not to come. On the one hand, they felt, he would not want to face a large public meeting, but he also would prefer not to be the cause of disciplinary action...
Still, if Goldberg wanted to come under the terms of the original invitation--without a public session--the Institute would have felt bound to arrange it. "We would have surrounded him with policemen and gotten him through somehow," an Institute official said...
...Goldberg opted for the public meeting. He had, it was learned later, a ready-made excuse to postpone the visit in President Johnson's request that he go within the next few weeks to Vietnam. He didn't take it, Institute officials say, because he thought the public meeting was a good idea; it could correct, as he said there, "a failure to provide facilities for this kind of expression...