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COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY officials, in the spring of 1969, sponsored a campus-wide "convocation" on the topic of Vietnam. As Alan Adelson in his book SDS recounts it, the day's final speaker, historian William Leuchtenberg, "brought the whole thing to a head. Woefully he warned that Americans are losing faith in their democracy." But the radicals throughout the crowd cheered and called out things like 'It's about time.' Leuchtenberg said: 'Our hope lies in the ballot box.' "BULLSHIT' cried the radicals...
...Klein, in the lead, manages to portray the understanding of the returned prodigal gently and sympathetically. Pierre Leval and Alan Goodrich, as the father and the elder brother, also succeed in creating strong characters of brief parts. Tom Harrington burned youthfully as the younger brother, and only Olga de Leuchtenberg faltered in her role as the mother...
Although he thinks that today's liberal should take more active stands, Leuchtenberg feels that "there has been an unforunate tendency to despise the armchair liberal." He believes that liberals should sit down and entirely revamp their thinking before they take any more hasty actions...
...that he has a five-year appointment at Harvard, Leuchtenberg hopes to settle down to the business of teaching, "writing a biography of Brand Whitlock, reform Mayor of Toledo in the early 1900's, and doing research for certain liberal members of the Massachusetts Legislature." He wants to run for office himself, but "not in the near future...
...Besides politics," Leuchtenberg says, "my only other hobbies are following the Brooklyn Dodgers (I must have listened to all 154 games last year) and reading the CRIMSON every morning at 11:00 a.m. over a cup of coffee at Hazen...