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Martin H. Peretz, instructor in Social Studies and a leading worker in the McCarthy campaign, said it was "an unenthusiastic, resentful, grudging endorsement and I don't think he expects it to influence many people." Peretz said he had spoken with McCarthy several days before the endorsement. It was "just fear of Nixon" that made McCarthy endorse Humphrey, Peretz said...
...Peretz added that he told McCarthy he did not agree with the decision to give the endorsement. "I told him I disagreed, and he said he understood. He wasn't angry," Peretz said...
Invited to the seminar are John Kenneth Galbraith, Paul M. Warburg Professor of Economics; Stanley Hoffman, professor of Government; Martin Peretz, assistant professor of Government; and Gino Germani, an Argentine sociologist teaching at Harvard...
...that by refusing to support HHH Dr. Peretz and other McCarthy supporters "destroy any pretensions they have had to sincere concern for social justice and human rights" is simply asinine. In the first place, it is anything but obvious to me that a "sincere concern for social justice" necessitates a vote for Hubert Humphrey, whose sincere concern for that war in Vietnam has seriously impaired the domestic programs for social justice in the United States. What ever happened to the Poverty Program, the OEO, and countless other programs promised to the poor and Black Americans by the Johnson-Humphrey Administration...
Those McCarthy supporters like Mr. Peretz, who indulge their own bitterness by refusing to back Humphrey against Nixon and Wallace, on the fantastic grounds that there is negligible difference between Humphrey and his right-wing opponents, destroy any pretensions they may have had to sincere concern for social justice and human rights. Affluent inttellectuals can afford to care only about the war and nothing but the war. But I dare them to tell a welfare mother in Roxbury, face to face, that "the worst of times" will be no worse under Nixon. I dare them to say it to Cesar...