Word: vietnams
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...audience's enthusiastic solidarity was shaken by the angry speech of the Cambridge Peace and Freedom Club's candidate for state representative. Michael Schwartz, a graduate student in Social Relations, said that the only just solution for Vietnam is to end negotiations and withdraw immediately and totally. Since McCarthy's aim "from the outset" was to lead a campaign is "only shadow boxing." "Nice guy McCarthy has a minor tactical difference with Johnson," he continued to a rising chorus of boos. "McCarthy's movement is over now. McCarthy exists as a feeble support for Humphrey, afraid, as he says...
...basic argument is that the only legitimate and tolerable position on the Vietnam War is "opposition," that the only tolerable evaluation of ROTC's role in American policy is "counterrevolutionary," and that therefore democratic decision-making is irrelevant to decisions about ROTC because there are no decisions to be made. The SDS letter maintains that because belonging to ROTC is immoral, a student has no right to do something immoral, i.e., join ROTC. Visions of Cotton Mather! Or, indeed, George Wallace, a proponent of similar doctrines of absolute truth...
...contests need not be looked on as outlets for the expression of anti-war sentiment only. Several candidates, like J. William Fulbright (Ark.) and Wayne Morse (Ore.), merit support despite erratic domestic records, and several others, like Leroy Collins (Fla.) and Birch Bayh (Ind.) merit the same despite weak Vietnam stands...
...real issue, as expressed in the petition, is that "U.S. armed forces, including ROTC graduates, are being used to impose a corrupt dictatorship on the people of South Vietnam, and Harvard students have no more right than Harvard's administration or the American government to support or aid that policy...
...looks upon the fight against ROTC as a direct way to bring pressure upon the military to end the war in Vietnam. "Writing letters to senators and supporting peace candidates have proved to be ineffective," said Mark Dyen '70, a member of last year's executive committee. "With ROTC put off college campuses, the military would be substantially weakened...