Word: vietnames
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...some ways, those who take a hard-line on Humphrey's career are persuasive. His position on Vietnam was no small blot on an otherwise brilliant record--to the contrary, attitudes on the war must be considered central in the assessment of anyone who held high office during those years. Humphrey may not have been an architect of the war policy but in playing the role of supporter he implicated himself in some of its ugliest facets: fudging reports of fact-finding trips, referring to "our finest hour," condoning the clubbings in the streets of Chicago...
What I've learned of the world since then has not been kind to my early pacifist beliefs. If asked again to fight in a war like Vietnam, I could not so readily request C.O. status. Perhaps the only answer is to hope one never has to face such a choice. And that seems almost no answer at all. --Adam W. Glass
...recent national survey linked a decline in college enrollment to the end of the Vietnam war but several officials here said yesterday Harvard's matriculation patterns do not follow the national trend...
David Riesman '31, Ford Professor of Social Sciences Emeritus, said yesterday he "wouldn't overemphasize the Vietnam war." An increase in females returning to school, a loss of adult authority over youth, peer pressure and the "insouciant" attitudes of men in today's society all contribute to the decline, he said...
James W. Wickenden, director of student and alumni services at the School of Education, said yesterday that the Vietnam war had little effect on the Harvard undergraduate applicant pool...