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Dubridge made the comment in the course of a 20 minute telephone conversation with M.I.T. provost Jerome Wiesner, who is one of nine members of Mass. Gov. Francis W. Sargent's Science and Technology Foundation. Sargent named the foundation to aid him in finding new uses for the research center, which is to be closed by June 30. Nixon appointed Dubridge to do the same job in Washington...
...telephone conversation between Wiesner and Dubridge came in the course of the science foundation's first meeting. After the conversation, Wiesner told the group that "the President passed on a very dirty job to him [Dubridge]... it's very clear he is not going to take the initiative...
...Linguist Noam Chomsky, the fervent antiwar leader: "He's an honest, honorable man." One reason Johnson inspires confidence is that he combines high energy with a low-key manner. "He's open-minded, unflappable, and doesn't get hooked on a single idea," says Provost Jerome Wiesner. Johnson, for example, laid down no rigid contingency plans for the demonstrations. His guiding principle, he says, was to stay flexible and avoid painting the administration into an ideological corner...
After some futile discussion with Wadleigh and with provost Jerome Wiesner, most of the group left the corridor outside Johnson's office. About 175 SACC members gathered in the lobby of the building and listened to speakers while the rest went...
Johnson, provost Jerome B. Wiesner, and M.I.T. Corporation head James R. Killian are among those whose offices will be occupied. If they are present, the NAC spokesman said, they will be told to leave. And if they refuse, they will be evicted bodily, "unless doing so would start a pitched battle...