Word: rossoff
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Dates: during 1965-1965
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...behalf of the more than 140 Presidential scholars who opposed the planned protest by other Scholars against U.S. policy in Vietnam. I must reply to Margaret Rossoff's misleading letter in the CRIMSON of 21 October...
...Miss Rossoff has quoted our letter to the President out of context. With omitted portions italicized, the full quotation is: "Since our personal political persuasions are irrelevant here, this letter is neither an endorsement nor a criticism of your actions, of National policy, or of the convictions of any political movement." Thus our letter did not "plead . . . [political] noninvolvement" or imply that we had taken no stand on the war in Vietnam; It merely denied that our collective or individual political positions were germane to the repudiation of an III-advised means of protest. A substantial number of us have...
...draft). The CRIMSON, as a newspaper in a democracy and a university, has an obligation and opportunity to help change these attitudes, which makes it imperative that you publicize individual protests. Since the three Scholars who did act were all Harvard-Radcliffe students, your omission is particularly regrettable. Margaret Rossoff...
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