Word: vietnams
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...other hand, Nixon might be freer to disavow the Vietnam policies of the past. He could, in fact, have become a humbler and wiser man during his eight years away from the center of power and might be able to restore leadership to an angry, divided country...
...grueling but unavoidable duty? One could vote for Humphrey--were the country still not reeling under the impact of a liberal Democratic Administration, had Humphrey not allied himself in Chicago with the repressive chieftans of of his party, had he not stood against the minority plank on Vietnam, and were he somehow able to throw off the oppressive weight of his own rhetoric...
...issue is not the morality of U.S. involvement in Vietnam, but the simple Right of students to believe differently than SDS. To reject the right of some students to belong to ROTC, is to deny their right, their freedom, to believe as they want, and feel they must; it is to deny them the right to support U.S. involvement in Vietnam. This negation of freedom puts SDS in the position of advocating suppression. The SDS should remember that no matter what moral superiority they claim, they have no more right to suppress freedom than the U.S. government...
...much right to exist as any other organization at Harvard. (Given the right of ROTC to exist, course credit becomes a solely academic question.) We hope that the Harvard community will oppose any attack on freedom, whether this attack is made by the U.S. government's unenlightened involvement in Vietnam, or by an over-zealous and self-righteous student organization. Jeffrey Laurenti '71 Kendall Evans '71 Thomas B. Cook III '71 Murray Turnbull
Humphrey's Vietnam position, outlined in his September 30 television address, is "rank and unprincipled opportunism," Peretz wrote. Politicians who find it "quite enough to know that Humphrey would like to find some words to please them" illustrate "how cynical our political culture has become," the article said...