Word: neustadt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Late last summer, the Institute's director, Richard E. Neustadt, invited a group of distinguished public figures to come to Harvard "not to make speeches or give lectures but rather to engage in wholly informal interchange with students (and faculty) in a relaxed setting." The low-keyed nature of this program, Neustadt felt, would produce the most educational benefit for all concerned: students and faculty could find out how the minds of public officials worked, and the officials could see whether academically-oriented insights were truly relevant or useful in public affairs...
...Neustadt came to feel that the value of the visits would be seriously jeopardized if critics of the visitors were able to force some sort of open and acrimonious confrontation. But the concern and, in many cases, disgust with which a substantial portion of the University community viewed the war in Vietnam threw a monkey wrench into the Institute's delicately wrought design...
...January 23, Michael Traugot, an SDS cochairman, wrote Neustadt to ask for an open debate between Goldberg, the next Associate, and "a serious critic of our government's Vietnam policy." Officials of the Institute, of course, continued to believe that a debate--with lengthy statements and rebuttals by Goldberg--would undermine the whole Honorary Associate program...
Then, on February 2, Goldberg wrote Neustadt requesting a public meeting at which he would answer questions about American foreign policy. What motivated this request remains unclear, but an understated problem of "saving face" immediately arose: how could the Institute sponsor a public meeting without abandoning the position it had held to so firmly during the McNamara visit...
...alumni and public figures as the two President Roosevelts and the two President Adamses, Dean Don K. Price Jr. of the government school said that "it is unusual to have a Harvard graduate assassinated while serving as President of the United States." The director of the institute, Dr. Richard Neustadt, insisted that it is "wholly nonpartisan and wholly Harvard"-and one university professor sniffed that "it might be easier to get control of the Government than of Harvard...