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...they would not go much beyond that in their criticism. The former Secretary of Labor and Supreme Court Justice was not a man who could be heated. He could not arouse--even in the most determined opponent of the war in Vietnam--the violent emotions that Secretary McNamara had during the Mill St. confrontation last November...
...discussion never really centered around Goldberg personally. It was always more abstract: The Kennedy Institute invited a member of the Johnson Administration to speak off-the-record to small groups as part of its Honorary Associates Program. SDS insisted, as it had insisted before McNamara's visit, that no Administration spokesman should come here without facing publicly hs anti-war critics. Could both he satisfied without a McNamara-like clash, without a clash...
Institute officials were not sure at the beginning that it could be. But they were determined to start talking early and not be--as they had felt they had been with McNamara--caught unprepared...
...perceived last Spring that he [McNamara] would be coming against the background of such frustration, we would have done it very differently or not at all," Richard E. Neustadt, director of the Institute, said in a recent interview...
...terms of Goldberg's invitation, of course, were the same as McNamara's. It was private; he was coming to talk informally with students (several Law School and Kennedy Institute seminars were on his schedule) and to consult with Faculty members (he asked to talk with Edwin O. Reischauer, University professor, and a group of "China experts...