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Ambassador Goldberg represents the United States government. As such, he stands responsible for its actions in Vietnam. The government of the United States has demanded and received a privileged position for its statements. Despite the fact that all its actions are widely defended in the mass media, and any government spokesman has any platform he desires, it still refuses to submit its policy to critical scrutiny in public debate. For example, government representatives have consistently refused to accept invitations to appear at teach-ins for the last year refusal to debate in the face of widespread demand...
This situation must be reversed. The present visit of Ambassador Goldberg has been presented as an opportunity for a confrontation between the anti-war. If that occurs, it will be a return to some semblance of democratic discussion. Such a confrontation is only possible...
...panelists can rebut Ambassador Goldberg's responses and ask follow-up questions...
...also faced some difficulty when it found out about Goldberg's request. Despite the vagueness of Goldberg's language, SDS quickly recognized that a formal debate was out of the question...
Like the Institute, SDS saw that its original aims could not be achieved intact. So it agreed to participate in a meeting at which all views on the war could be voiced, in the hope that SDS members would still get a chance to press Goldberg. For its part, the Institute managed to escape the onus of sponsoring a meeting which violates one of its original guidelines--but the Honorary Associate program remains unchanged in many of its essentials. Both sides have compromised, and both have done so without appearing to compromise their basic positions...