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...most worthless article in the 16-page magazine is not either of these, however, nor yet Danny Boggs' analysis of the Conservative revival at last August's NSA Convention. Boggs came to the conclusion that, although conservative ideas, well-presented, did have reasonable chance of passage, simply saying "This is Conservative" was not sufficient to get a measure passed. It is a rare critique of the NSA which claims that...
Perhaps if the authors of the CRIMSON articles wish to call quiet effectiveness "non-existence," and noisy impotence "existence," then the right indeed disappeared at the last Congress, but those are definitions I feel few rational people would accept. Danny J. Beggs '65 Chmn, Harvard delegation to NSA Convention
...should like to take issue with some of the implications about NSA's 16th Congress made in the articles by Messrs. Hertzberg and Roberts in that the right wing was practically non-existent, yet somehow the Left just couldn't get their proposals off the ground...
...suggest that conservatives did attend the Congress and this year, feeling that NSA's policy statements are important, decided to influence the legislation NSA passes by working within the legislative process...
...example, the nuclear testing resolution (which erased a former NSA condemnation of all testing by the United States), the resolution condemning the Soviet Union, Bulgaria and East Germany for suppressing students, and a resolution decrying some manifestations of progressive education were all substantially written by members of the conservative caucus and assed. On the other hand, conservatives successfully opposed proposals asking colleges to withdraw from the recent civil defense program, supporting federal aid to elementary and secondary education, and endorsing civil disobedience...