Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Institute of Politics helped illuminate more than one set of conflicts during the past year. When the Institute invited Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara for a two-day stay in Cambridge, it did not anticipate the uproar the Secretary's visit would cause. The confrontation on Mill St. resulted from more than mere disagreement over the war. The premise of all actions taken by Students for a Democratic Society was that students should have a larger role in determining what does and does not happen at Harvard...
...presence of SDS has kept pressure on the Administration to consider the role of students in decision-making. By the end of the year, Monro had designated the entire topic for consideration by the Overseers Committee to Visit the College. This Committee has not legislative powers, but the mere tactful discussion marked the new status this subject has gained over the past year...
This situation must be reversed. The present visit of Ambassador Goldberg has been presented as an opportunity for a confrontation between the anti-war. If that occurs, it will be a return to some semblance of democratic discussion. Such a confrontation is only possible...
Students for a Democratic Society felt that the Johnson Administration had consciously failed to confront those critics of the war who questioned its very premises, moral and political. SDS saw the McNamara visit and, later, the Goldberg visit as prime opportunities to force the long-awaited confrontation. But the policy-makers at the Kennedy Institute, until the disruptive demonstration on Mill St., underestimated the frustration and consequent furor of the anti-war movement. In keeping with the original formulation of the Honorary Associate Program, any debate with McNamara was categorically ruled...
...public meeting at which he would answer questions about American foreign policy. What motivated this request remains unclear, but an understated problem of "saving face" immediately arose: how could the Institute sponsor a public meeting without abandoning the position it had held to so firmly during the McNamara visit...