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...contend with. While a lot of Republicans out in the country have been backing Johnson's fighting stance in Viet Nam, some G.O.P. Congressmen have felt that it is time to debate the subject. This is pretty hard to do without sounding like a speaker at a college teach-in. But the G.O.P.sters thought they detected a mild rift between Johnson and Eisenhower in their respective positions on Viet Nam and decided to move into the breach. Naturally, they drafted a "white paper...
...announced draft of students and professors into the Vietnamese army for officer training. The roar came from Hué, where the draft order would have reduced the local university's faculty to four professors. Meeting in a series of open "seminars," a sort of Asiatic teach-in, 500 draft eligibles issued a fiery manifesto accusing Ky of attempting to "lead the society into a state of confusion and darkness," demanded the overthrow of the government, free elections and, for good measure, "social revolution...
...what of Vietnam and Santo Domingo? The New Radicalism necessarily stops short of the teach-in movement, but the cast of characters has not changed radically. Mailer rants, Stone pleads, and gadfly MacDonald flits through the President's arts festival taking signatures on an anti-war petition. One might imagine that the radicals, if such they are, are hugely relieved to be once again in unqualified opposition to a hostile government and not cursed with the opportunity, however slight, of realizing the megalomaniacal tendencies that Mr. Lasch detects but does not name. Praise God, the autonomy of "culture...
Your recent coverage of the summer teach-in and Donald Riegle's letter of June 19th both reveal significant issues clouding the future impact of such events. One cannot help but believe that if the recent Norman Mailer performance is typical the teach-in movement has ceased to be constructive and has become instead just a particularly well-organized adolescent rebellion against the harsh realities of one phase of adult life...
...intriguing that the teach-ins have rarely featured speakers with a responsible stake in the administration of any policy, much less that of our government in Vietnam. When such speakers have appeared, attendance has fallen and the remaining audience has subjected them to the cat-calls of night-long bedlam. Rarely have the teach-in speakers considered rational alternatives to the blunt, pressing problems of dealing with an implacable, illusive enemy who refuses either to yield or to negotiate. Rarely have alternative action proposals been examined in the light of their complex consequences for our friends, our enemies...