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Lawrence F. Stevens '65, secretary to the Visiting Committees of the Board of Overseers, said that he does not see any justification for the tumult. "The report is preliminary and just suggests alternatives to be discussed." He added that no action has been taken since the report was released in November to committee members and concerned Faculty members...
Even in 1972, when the activism was given a decidedly local flavor by black students attempting to force Harvard to sell its shares of Gulf Oil stock, the war added to the tumult. Nixon's decision to increase the bombing and to mine Haiphong Harbor in an attempt to stem the North Vietnamese offensive coincided nicely with the blacks' seizure of Mass Hall. The war reinforced the unrest, swelling the size of the picket lines that circled constantly around the embattled Administration building...
...have ended on a triumphant note, a "view from Olympus," on March 17, 1973, as Nixon described his use of a President's power in an exclusive interview with the author. White records a self-confident Nixon, trained by four years in office to ignore public tumult and exclude all but highest-priority matters from his attention; such tough-minded devotion to long views is, White decides, the stuff of history. At that time, he writes, "my judgment . . . would have cast Richard Nixon as one of the major Presidents of the 20th century, in a rank just after Franklin...
Even in 1972, when the activism was given a decidedly local flavor by black students attempting to force Harvard to sell its shares of Gulf Oil stock, the war added to the tumult. Nixon's decision to increase the bombing and to mine Haiphong Harbor in an attempt to stem the North Vietnamese offensive coincided nicely with the blacks' seizure of Mass Hall. The war reinforced the unrest, swelling the size of the picket lines that circled constantly around the embattled Administration building...
...really necessary? The difficult debate over individual rights v. the common good dates from the earliest days of the republic. Still, the fact that most of the fights over repression, loyalty oaths and the stifling of dissent are so long forgotten is an indication that in most cases the tumult was out of all proportion to the mouse that squeaked defiance...