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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...
...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...
...Frank said yesterday that men such as Richard E. Neustadt, director of the Institute, and Institute members Adam Yarmolinsky '43, professor of Law, and Daniel P.Moynihan, director of the Joint Center for Urban Studies, would probably also take part...
According to its director, the Kennedy Institute made the decision not to have Secretary McNamara debate the issues of the Vietnam war. An insight into the kind of reasoning behind that decision is Professor Neustadt's analogy" It's like saying to me that I should change the curriculum or the subject matter of my courses because students don't think it makes sense." (Crimson, Nov.8) How ridiculous that students have a say in the learning experience! Is this the kind of student-teacher partnership in free inquiry that Prof. Neustadt seeks to experiment with at the Kennedy Institute...