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...Goldberg visit is currently scheduled for Feb. 12 to Feb. 14, when the ambassador will be the fourth honorary associate of the Kennedy Institute. It was the visit of the first honorary associate, Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara, and a demonstration that accompanied his stay which prompted Monday's meeting...
...details of Goldberg's visit will now be discussed by the Institute's Planning Committee, May said. The Institute has been "experimenting" with a number of different formats for the associates since the McNamara visit, and the committee is still interested in testing new ideas, May said...
...asked that McNamara confront critics of U.S. Vietnam policy in a public meeting. The Institute refused, and SDS organized a demonstration which entrapped the Secretary on Mill St. outside of Quincy House. Police had to clear a path through students for McNamara to leave...
When the question of having another "disruptive demonstration" did occasionally arise, there seemed to be different currents among SDS members. But at least one member of SDS's executive committee said that a repeat of the McNamara incident would not be desirable...
...State of the Union speech, Johnson may announce two major decisions: 1) whether or not to develop a costly anti-missile system, which the Joint Chiefs of Staff want and Defense Secretary McNamara hotly opposes, and 2) whether or not to raise taxes. At week's end White House sources gave no indication that either decision had been made, despite rumors in Washington and New York that the President had finally ruled out a tax increase...