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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...seems hard to believe that you said what they said you said. Remarks to the effect that student disruption at Harvard is the work of a "very very tiny group of people, including two or three sons of active Communists"... who had been "carefully indoctrinated before coming to Harvard," are shameful and gratuitously provocative. Your resort to guilt by association (both with the Communist Party and with one's parents--all in one remark!), your attempt to stigmatize a particular set of political beliefs, and your misrepresentation of the sources of student discontent at Harvard set an ugly tone...
Whoever wishes to understand students discontent would be much better advised to look into conditions at Harvard (your own responsibility), and conditions in this country as a whole, rather than the heritage of any particular group of students...
Dean Watson said this weekend that serious student disruption at Harvard is the work of "a very, very tiny group of people, including two or three sons of active communists...
...interview yesterday, Watson elaborated on his statement: "It appears to me that this small group of radicals has been carefully indoctrinated before coming to Harvard. Some of them are pretty sophisticated and start entering into radical activities right away...
...said that the "very, very tiny group" was "bent on stopping the university." At the same time, he characterized the majority of radicals and members of SDS as "fine, upstanding students with great integrity who believe that the Vietnam war is a horrible mistake...