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...discussion never really centered around Goldberg personally. It was always more abstract: The Kennedy Institute invited a member of the Johnson Administration to speak off-the-record to small groups as part of its Honorary Associates Program. SDS insisted, as it had insisted before McNamara's visit, that no Administration spokesman should come here without facing publicly hs anti-war critics. Could both he satisfied without a McNamara-like clash, without a clash...
...nobody expected trouble. SDS's demand for a public confrontation reached us late in the process. We felt there was no way to ask for such a thing as a basic change in the terms of his invitation; we wouldn't have dreamed...
...which the Institute looked at the invitation was different. Institute officials still insisted that they were not running a "speaker's bureau." Yet the McNamara demonstration, and the discussion that followed it, had lent some weight to SDS's argument about why officials like McNamara should be asked to speak publicly...
...questions SDS raised was whether the terms of our invitations to men like Goldberg and McNamara didn't inferentially put the University's prestige behind them," Neustadt said. "We found that this was a view held strongly by a fraction of this community, including some of its permanent members. And if, in their view, we are lending this prestige, then...
Even more important, the Institute was not alone in caring intensely about the arrangements for Goldberg's visit. Dean Monro attended a meeting and went to dinner with SDS leaders after the McNamara demonstration; he was to have four long meetings with them during the month before Goldberg's arrival. Mill Street had changed the Administration's thinking and made it willing to share responsibility for the visit, to help get the Institute around the terms of its invitation...