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OTHER PROFESSORS ARE MORE silent. For instance, Adam B. Ulam, professor of Government and another registered Democrat, says simply, "I am not voting for McGovern." Asked why, Ulam says the questions are too complicated and grumbles something about foreign policy...
Ithiel de Sola Pool, professor of Political Science at MIT and a Vietnam adviser under several presidents, goes into more detail on just which McGovern foreign policy stands the scholars find disturbing...
...election of McGovern would create real dangers in the international situation," Pool says. "If the United States followed McGovern's policies there'd be no reason for the other side to negotiate anything. He says he will reduce arms and cut back troop levels. If we followed these policies there would be no possibility of a detente...
Although he approves of Nixon's foreign policy moves over the past four years, he says the cause of his switch is more than a negative feeling for McGovern. "The situation of civil liberties under Nixon distresses me," Pool confesses, but he says the foreign policy questions are the crucial ones. The adage he repeats is: "On domestic policy, the president proposes, the Congress disposes." He adds, "I hope plenty of liberal Democrats will be elected to Congress...
Another registered Democrat, Robert Scalapino, professor of Political Science at the University of California at Berkeley and a White House defense adviser, concurs with his fellow converts. "I regard McGovern as an honorable man." Scalapino admits, "but he's the most incredibly naive man to run for the presidency in the 20th century...