Word: saturdays
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with Brian and his friends on a Saturday morning in March 1971 in the White House Situation Room, and we struggled to fashion at least a temporary bridge across the mutual incomprehension that was rending our society. Gently, they expressed their deep and passionate opposition to the war; but they had no idea how to end it. My problem was to translate inchoate ideas-however deeply held-into policy. Ours was the perpetually inconclusive dialogue between statesmen and prophets, between those who operate in time and through attainable stages and those who are concerned with truth and the eternal...
...Saturday, April 25, Nixon called me to Camp David to review the planning. I walked along at the edge of the swimming pool while he paddled in the water. Nixon began to toy with
...been thinking all week about a light way of approaching this afternoon's invasion of Harvard Stadium by the Boston University Terriers. I wanted to poke fun at a school that draws a meager 100 or 200 fans to its Saturday afternoon brawls. There's something quaint about the way the Terriers battle an Astroturf in makeshift Nickerson Field, nestled amid the three high-rise party factories commonly known as West campus...
...ignominy of sitting through Harvard's football game with Massachusetts was, I thought, the worst I would have to endure last Saturday. My indignation rose, however, at the references made to Pine Manor College by the Harvard band during their half-time show. But the feeling was short-lived as I recalled the general appearance of members of the band who I have passed while walking to the Stadium. I had to conclude that the display could have been little more than an exercise in wishful thinking...
...Saturday will be a departure from our previous tactics of civil disobedience. We will measure our success not in terms of symbolic value, media impact, or numbers arrested. Success this time means closing down Seabrook forever. Success means doing so collectively and without violence...