Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Like Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara, whose visit last week opened the Institute's program, Ford will hold two informal discussions with groups of 50 undergraduates. The first will be this afternoon at Leverett House and the second tomorrow at Winthrop. Both discussions will be followed by small dinners in which 20 more students will meet with Ford...
...only then, more than 12 hours after the Secretary of Defense left Cambridge, that the Administration of Harvard College really became involved in the McNamara visit. Before that, almost everything had been handled by the Kennedy Institute of Politics. The weeks preceeding the Secretary's arrival had not been inactive ones for the Institute. A new experimental program, designed to bring undergraduates into closer contact with public figures, was to begin, and a long list of details had to be attended. More importantly, there was political groundwork to be done if the Secretary's visit were to be successful...
...School. Frank was tired, angry, and dejected. Twenty minutes before, Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara had been engulfed by angry students; it had been a humiliation for Frank as much as for the Secretary. For three weeks he had been at the center of preparations for the McNamara visit. He had arranged the time schedule. He had selected the 120 undergraduates who would see the Secretary. He had talked with Students for a Democratic Society. He had made arrangements with House Masters, cleared agreements with the Harvard Administration, and coordinated plans with the University Police. He had aimed...
...afternoon's events. For the meeting of McNamara and his critics on Mill St. was not an ordinary occurrence for Harvard. It resembled no other political protest in the College's recent history. Previous demonstrations had been mild in comparison. The most memorable, perhaps, was George Wallace's visit to Cambridge in the fall of 1963. It provoked a large demonstration on Cambridge Common and picketing around Sanders Theatre. All that happened then, however, was that someone let the air out of the tires of Wallace's car. And when Madame Nhu arrived a few weeks later, angry critics marched...
...With the visit of McNamara, SDS saw yet another opportunity to generate interest in itself and in the war. Here was a clear-cut chance to do something -- a chance for a large number of SDS members to become involved in a significant anti-war protest. There was a good deal of personal satisfaction in this prospect for more experienced SDS leaders, who anticipated shattering the stolid indifference of the Harvard campus. The McNamara visit, then, was not to be ignored. It was potentially at least, the stuff of which strong organizations are made...