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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Unruh said, "I might have questioned a Republican sooner, but I so trusted the leadership of the party under Kennedy that it took me a long time to change my mind." Exactly when Unruh changed his mind about Vietnam is unclear, but on December 1. 1968. pressure was put on him to join the Johnson primary ticket. He steadfastly refused. He argued with Bobby Kennedy nine days later and positively urged him to run. By the convention in Chicago, Unruh's efforts to swing the California delegation to McCarthy and the dove plank were "predictable...
...following. I appeared yesterday (12/4?69) at Memorial Hall to attempt to donate blood. After the initial formalities, I was asked a number of questions about my medical history, including whether I had ever taken any drugs. I naively answered yes-in connection with illnesses. The nurse said, no, she meant marijuana or L. S. D. Well, I said, of course I've smoked occasionally-but not very often. The last time? About two weeks ago. She disappeared behind a curtain and returned to say that on doctor's orders. I was permanently "deferred...
...questioned the rationality of this policy and, in reply, was asked whether I would want my mother, near death in a hospital, to be given a marijuana smoker's blood. I asked to see the doctor and was referred instead to the head nurse, who said the doctor was busy at her lunch...
...refusing everyone who claims to have smoked, but that the nurse is instructed to be on the lookout for habitual drug types and, particularly, for anyone who might have used heroin, which, he pointed out, may be associated with hepatitis, which can be transmitted in the blood. He said that marijuana, like nicotine, did leave a residue in the blood for long periods of time and that the residue had unknown effects...
...Education and one of the builders of the yurt, plans to begin holding office hours in the yurt after Christmas, and to teach a seminar there next term. "It's sort of our feeling that a proper space for informal meetings doesn't exist in the University," he said...