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...demonstrations against American participation in the Vietnam war have elicited a barrage of criticism. Presidential Press Secretary Bill Moyers said the President was "surprised that any one citizen would feel toward his country in a way that is not consistent with the national interest." Atty. Gen. Nicholas deB. Katzenbach announced that the Justice Dept. would begin an investigation of the demonstration's sponsors. "Whenever you have a situation in which people are saying things similar to what is being said in Peking, you are likely to find some Communists...
Attorney General Katzenbach, and many other critics, have charged that the demonstrators were infiltrated, controlled, or duped by Communists. It is impossible for us to corroborate or deny these charges, but we believe them irrelevent. One need not be a Communist to question the wisdom of American policy in Vietnam. Not every opinion held by a Communist is invalid...
...opposition to the war has been criticized recently by national figures. The Executive Council decided last night to hold a press conference on Monday to answer charges levelled by Senators Thomas J. Dodd (D-Conn.), John Stennis (D-Miss.), and Attorney General Nicholas DeB. Katzenbach...
Speaking to more than 1400 college presidents and administrators at the annual meeting of the American Council on Education, Katzenbach said that student grievances, "however deeply felt, are so pallid by comparison with those of the Negro that to demonstrate over them can be to dilute and debase the moral significance of demonstrations for civil rights...
...Katzenbach praised the committment and concern of students protesting what he called "deadening conformity," but he suggested that student rebels often "dissipate the insight and the energy which ought better to be devoted to opposing" specific wrongs and problems...