Word: sds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...SDS leadership perceived a moral conflict. Some members felt that the queries of the anti-war movement should dominate the meeting. After all, the consistency and intensity of SDS were probably responsible for the very existence of the meeting. On the other hand, SDS knew it didn't hold--and couldn't claim to hold--a monopoly on the different kinds of objections to Administration Vietnam policy...
Students for a Democratic Society felt that the Johnson Administration had consciously failed to confront those critics of the war who questioned its very premises, moral and political. SDS saw the McNamara visit and, later, the Goldberg visit as prime opportunities to force the long-awaited confrontation. But the policy-makers at the Kennedy Institute, until the disruptive demonstration on Mill St., underestimated the frustration and consequent furor of the anti-war movement. In keeping with the original formulation of the Honorary Associate Program, any debate with McNamara was categorically ruled...
After the Secretary of Defense was forcibly detained outside Quincy House, the University Administration stepped into the controversy. It joined the Institute in negotiating with the SDS leadership. Dean Monro stated that any recurrence of the McNamara incident could lead to disciplinary action against student participants...
...January 23, Michael Traugot, an SDS cochairman, wrote Neustadt to ask for an open debate between Goldberg, the next Associate, and "a serious critic of our government's Vietnam policy." Officials of the Institute, of course, continued to believe that a debate--with lengthy statements and rebuttals by Goldberg--would undermine the whole Honorary Associate program...
...SDS also faced some difficulty when it found out about Goldberg's request. Despite the vagueness of Goldberg's language, SDS quickly recognized that a formal debate was out of the question...