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Originally booted out during Vietnam and kept out by concerns about discrimination against gays and lesbians, the ROTC program has returned to the headlines with the war in Iraq. At Harvard, University President Lawrence H. Summers has strongly supported the program...
With U.S. President Jimmy Carter’s stalwart support, Congress reinstated draft registration for eligible men aged 19 and 20 starting July 21, 1980. The draft had been abolished in 1974, near the end of the Vietnam...
Harvard has not hosted an officer training program since 1971, two years after the Faculty, expressing its opposition to the Vietnam War, voted to bar ROTC from using campus space...
Five members of the Class of 1955 went on to win Pulitzer Prizes. Lukas won two Pulitzers before his death in 1997, and Halberstam picked up one for his coverage of the Vietnam...
...graduated, Ike had been elected, and there wasn’t as much political value to it for the Republicans,” Halberstam says. “Academic freedom was soon to be replaced as the top campus issue by civil rights and, some years later, by Vietnam...