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...American campus; now I see that you young men will make us free." Said Indianapolis News Editor M. Stanton Evans, 27: "I say the twist was originated in Washington by the Kennedy Administration-a lot of frantic motion with no visible progress." South Carolina's Senator J. Strom Thurmond, 59. combined an attack on the Administration for invoking executive privilege during the continuing Senate investigation of military censorship ("This is nothing more than the executive Fifth Amendment") with a pessimistic appraisal of the cold war ("The evil forces of Communism have continued to move forward as a tide...
...rest of the scheduled list of speakers, Sen. Thomas J. Dodd (D-Conn.) has announced his withdrawal on the grounds that "there were too many Republicans" and he would be "the only Democrat." Sen. Strom Thurmond, however, is still planning to attend...
...Besides Thurmond the list of YAF award winners still includes Herbert Hoover, John Wayne, John Dos Passos, and conservative editor M. Stanton Evans...
...Thurmond also criticized President Kennedy for invoking executive privileges--which he termed of "dubious" legal justification--to withhold the names of individual censors who made changes in speeches...
Explaining the need to let military men speak out, Thurmond said, "I am convinced that the American public, when informed, makes a mighty sound judgement--even if it won't believe that the leopard will change his spots...