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...Government decades ago. Others shuffled through the rain with umbrellas raised high. Jim Rowe and Paul Porter were New Dealers. Thomas Corcoran, when he was not redesigning the Government 40 years ago, used to play the accordion for Franklin Roosevelt out at Joe Kennedy's place. Robert McNamara, John Kennedy's and Lyndon Johnson's Secretary of Defense, attended, and so did Mrs. Dean Acheson, the widow of Harry Truman's Secretary of State...
Neither City Manager James L. Sullivan nor City Purchasing Agent Richard J. McNamara were available for comment yesterday, but a survey of dietitians and chefs at Cambridge Hospital and Cambridge Infirmary revealed that food service employees have not been informed of the boycott...
Throughout his discussion, Ellsberg emphasized the part of Harvard graduates in the determination of bombing plans in Vietnam. He cited former president John F. Kennedy '40, Robert McNamara '33, and William P. Bundy...
Ellsberg also admitted to the audience that he was in possession of material in 1965-66 that showed that "McNamara lied" and that certain officials planned actions which were not divulged to the public...
...fall of 1966, when 800 protesters forced Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara to take questions about the Vietnam war on the hood of a car outside Quincy House, a significant minority of Harvard students were ready--some of them anxious--to disregard Ford's warning. The immediate sequence of events that led to the Strike didn't start for another two years; but a radical discontent began to simmer long before that. In the spring of 1967, the teaching fellows--whose successors would provide the Strike with its five demands--began the first attempt to unionize Harvard academics since...