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...most recent edition of the Dodd Report on Communism in the Teach-In Movement contains a blank page. Since the report itself and the specific charge that has been retracted were widely publicized last October, the story of how the page came to be blank ought to be better known...
Four professors, it said, had organized two Colorado teach-ins, and these four were close friends of two other professors who were ex-members of the Communist Party. One of them, at a teach-in, had called President Johnson, Secretary Rusk, and Adlai Stevenson international outlaws. A second teach-in was "much worse;" propaganda leaflets were distributed and a Communist film shown twice. Furthermore, the report said that the four professors controlled the Colorado Daily, the student-subsidized newspaper. The paper, said the report, "is being used to extend the influence of that particular group." "The net result is that...
...Colorado, things didn't go by the script. For one thing, the anonymous writer had made an incredible number of errors. Professor Howard Higman, he wrote, was now carrying on the teach-ins. But, replied Professor Higman, he had been asked to speak at both teach-ins and had refused; in fact, he favored Johnson's Vietnam policy. One of the four professors charged with "friendship" with the two ex-Communists had never met them; another was acquainted with them professionally. Only one considered himself a "close friend" of the two men, both respected, tenured faculty members. Professor Richard Wilson...
...only official word from the White House about the great peace teach-in came from Press Secretary Bill Moyers, who told reporters: "The President in the last few weeks has felt that it was especially appropriate for more leaders of the world to know his views on Asia. This is a continuation of this Government's efforts to state and restate, affirm and reaffirm, clarify and reclarify our position on Viet...
...Conducting symposia like the one ARFEP is now considering, less frantic than the marathon "teach-in" and aimed at producing practiced policy appraissals and proposals...