Word: supportively
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...studios and on the scene at Lowell Lecture Hall. They were collecting historical information on the moral, political and legal aspects of dissent. The program would have been of great interest and service to the Boston community. Harvard's only "long-standing policy" in these matters has been to support such vital forums, as witnessed by the University's continued financial contributions to WGBH...
...petition, in support of which Professor Reischauer addressed a letter to his colleagues on the Faculty, declares that "the earliest possible achievement of a negotiated settlement should be a primary objective of American policy in Vietnam." The wording here is deliberately ambiguous. Our own position is that there is little to negotiate except immediate American withdrawal and perhaps reparations to the Vietnamese people. We never expected Professor Reischauer to espouse this particular interpretation, but we did believe that he was sincere in his plea for some kind of negotiated settlement. Thus we find it difficult to understand how he could...
...demands. Indeed, in context it appears that the scholars are recommending this small gesture not in the hope of thereby bringing the war to a speedier end, but rather as a token concession to mollify the anti-war movement here at home: "Nothing would do more to strengthen American support for our basic position," they write, than modest de-escalation...
...petition Reischauer argues that the Administration's conduct of the war has not been sufficiently directed toward the earliest possible attainment of a peaceful settlement. In the Tuxedo Park statement, he and his colleagues declare that the American record in Asia is "a remarkably good one, worthy of support"--one "of which we can be proud." If Reischauer is indeed proud of a policy that by his own admission has not done everything possible to end a war that is costing hundreds of lives every week, then his values are very different from our own and from those that would...
...telegram read in part: "The American people have been asked to support the tragic escalation of the war in Vietnam and are being asked to support it definitively by their vote in 1968. But at no time, I believe, has the administration come forth with a clear and rational justification of why the Vietnam war should be supported...