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...President Truman's Universal Military Training plan caused much controversy on campus with heated arguments coming from both sides, and rallies at Sanders Theatre...
...Before, during and after WWII, Harvard was intimately connected to the national political scene. Conant, who served as Harvard's president from 1933 to 1953, was also an atomic weapons adviser to Presidents Roosevelt and Truman...
...During the warm-up to the Democratic primary, which featured Harry S Truman and Henry A. Wallace, Bernstein says he attended a rally held by the Harvard AYD chapter...
...Truman, the incumbent an establishment Democrat, was clearly the moderates' choice. Wallace's conciliatory remarks about the Soviet Union, by then America's sworn enemy, had marked him as a radical...
...Bernstein recalls how, at a cocktail party for potential new members, the AYD student leaders chanted, "If Truman's in the way, we're gonna roll right over...