Word: reade
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Agnew attack? In the past, the Administration has avowed that his salvos have had only tacit, after-the-fact approval from the White House. This one had its genesis in Richard Nixon's office on the morn ing after his Viet Nam speech, when the President read the news summary edited for him by Speechwriter Pat Buchanan-and concluded that the TV commentators had chopped him up. "There was fairly widespread dismay and unhappiness around here," says one White House aide wryly. The incoming mail showed that some of the President's supporters were just as upset...
...next day the feeling of futility and senselessness was again present. But it died quickly as we marched up the avenue and sat around the monument. There were so many people of all ages, sizes, shapes and colors. One sign read "You have finally brought us together, Dick." At the monument the speeches were dull, the air was icy, and the songs fell flat. We built fires with the AFL-CIO banners. No fools, those workers, they brought wooden sticks with their placards. A little of what made Woodstock a legend made life bearable at the monument...
Assured that this was the case, May read a warning statement to the demonstrators, telling them that they were "forcefully interfering with [his] freedom of movement and obstructing the normal processes and activities essential to the functions of this office and this University, all in violation of the Faculty Resolution on Rights and Responsibilities and the Statutes of the University...
Police took Mann into the building immediately without allowing him to read a statement he had prepared. They prevented the other Weathermen from entering the building and tried to disperse them. About ten minutes of shoving followed...
Observers at other private colleges and universities might well read this letter, which to me is a gloomy one, and say that they would give a great deal to have problems such as this. After all, we still do have a strategic reserve when many similar institutions, and other faculties at Harvard, do not. On the other hand, it does seem clear to me that the legitimate pressures that increase our expenses seem stronger than our ability to produce offsetting income, and that this condition will persist at least for the next few years. If this is correct, then...