Word: vietnams
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...deny President Johnson the 1968 Democratic Presidential nomination, Senator Eugene J. McCarthy (D-Minn.) has shown a rare degree of political courage. For the first time a figure of national stature will offer the American public a positive alternative to this country's ever-widening involvement in Vietnam and the stagnation the war has caused in domestic programs...
...deny Johnson the renomination of the Democratic Party. In addition, a good showing by McCarthy may convince Senator Robert F. Kennedy (D-N.Y.) and other Democrats in private disagreement with the President that an alternative to Johnson does exist. It may cause President Johnson to moderate his Vietnam policies. It may convince the Republicans that by nominating a dove they will attract a large and well-organized number of Democrats. Finally, the campaign promises to have a good effect on the country by bringing back into the political system those persons whose frustrations over the war have led them...
...campaign headquarters across the state and for the massive canvassing the Senator's supporters are now preparing. McCarthy's courageous bid to unseat Lyndon Johnson deserves the vigorous support of all those in the Harvard community who want to see this country reverse the unhappy course of the Vietnam...
...reference was merely to "classified" research. I'm sure that by almost anyone's standards of wickedness (Galbraith's term) some classified research would be found unobjectionable. People concerned about the dissemination of nuclear technology, about the limitation of weapons, even about ways of ending the war in Vietnam, often require classified information to do their work or, at least, have to be exposed to classified information in doing their work and cannot do it unless they are willing to safeguard what the government calls "security." Even if the character of everybody's classified research could be ascertained, drawing...
Finally, are Faculty members who are unaffiliated with the government in any fashion, classified or unclassified, but who openly support the administration's policy toward Vietnam, to qualify for boycott? It seems strange to exclude them; but again the line would be hard to draw for those who neither wholly support the conduct or the war nor are wholly committed to one drastic alternative. (It is unclear to me on which side of the line Professor Galbraith would be placed...