Word: honorally
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...part, Johnson spent more time than usual expounding his Administration's policies. In a ceremony during which he awarded the 19th Medal of Honor of the Viet Nam war, he replied to Morton's charges that he had been "brainwashed"-a usage that must have warmed George Romney-by the military-industrial complex into seeking a solely "military" solution to the impasse in Viet Nam. Said the President: "We have also had to face the hard reality that only military power can bar aggression and make a political solution possible...
...consider the fact that the trip was not taken at the initiative of any of the Faculty members, but at the President's personal invitation. That circumstance did not require any of us to change his mind, but it did dictate decent respect for the request that we honor the confidentiality of the interviews themselves. Equally important was the knowledge that unless security as to substance was guaranteed in advance, nothing of real interest was likely to be said down there -- and none of us wanted to make the trip without hope of learning anything...
...Johnson (which could never be proven) then I would like to raise once again the question you have already answered so unfairly. Would it be proper for the Faculty to follow suit in a breach of faith? Would any sensational outcry be worth more than the compromise of their honor, the sacrifice of their standards? Is the only response to political action always to be an eye for an eye, a blow for a blow, a crime for a crime? Frederic R. Kellogg...
President Pusey commented, "It's an indication of great respect. The office is an honor to the Dean and to Harvard...
...defense policy. Most of us in this room know some at least of these men. Many here know them all. And we know them to be persons of immutable conviction on almost all matters we would regard as central to liberal belief, and further to be men of personal honor and the highest intellectual attainment. There are, further, not a few of us present who contributed something considerable to persuade the American public that we were entirely right to be setting out on that course that has brought us waist deep in the big muddy. It is this knowledge, this...