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...skeptical of "free world" rhetoric. But, as Scheer said in his speech at the demonstration, those who employ that rhetoric have a duty to be consistent. It was not courteous to refer to Krushchev as "the butcher of Budapest." But if Krushchev was the butcher of Budapest then McNamara and Johnson are the butchers of Vietnam. If my hypothetical Moscow U. students would have been profoundly in order "physically confronting" Krushchev, then 800 Harvard students were profoundly in order in physically confronting McNamara. Talk of "courtesy" is in the worst taste when butchery is the issue...
...course of this war has the Administration sought a dialogue with members of the Anti-War Movement and, in fact, has done its best to ignore them. Therefore, some 50 faculty members, 93 teaching fellows, and about 1600 Harvard and Radcliffe undergraduates have petitioned Secretary McNamara to debate Robert Scheer, a noted spokesman for the Anti-War Movement...
...flurry of objections has greeted the announcement that Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara will speak to only two small groups of undergraduates during his visit to Harvard this Sunday and Monday. The critics insist that McNamara should debate Ramparts magazine editor Robert Scheer, or at least talk to a larger audience. But they miss the point of inviting public figures to be honorary associates of the Kennedy Institute...
...people would deny that McNamara should publicly discuss the Administration's Vietnam policy, or even that he should debate articulate dissenters such as Scheer. But a stay under the auspices of the Kennedy Institute is not necessarily the occasion for a Great Debate...
Since both Scheer and Johnson will be arriving at Logan on Friday at about the same time, Ansara has suggested a fitting start to the President's 90 minute tour of Boston. When Scheer arrives, all of the anti-war demonstrators are going to abandon LBJ and surround the Democratic peace-candidate asking if there is any truth to the rumor that he will run for President...