Word: mcclellan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...present detailed plans for hiring Negroes in order to qualify to bid on federal construction projects. George Meany and many contractors argue that the "Philadelphia Plan" amounts to a racial-quota system barred by the 1964 Civil Rights Act. In response to an inquiry from Arkansas Senator John McClellan, U.S. Comptroller General Elmer Staats recently held that the plan is illegal. The Labor Department, backed by a contrary opinion from Attorney General John Mitchell, is pushing ahead anyway. It expects to extend the plan to federal projects in Chicago, Boston, Pittsburgh and other cities...
...Senate Permanent Investigations Subcommittee, chaired by Sen. John L. McClellan (D-Ark.), subpoenaed information on student militants from various colleges. In the course of its hearings on SDS, the McClellan Committee proudly revealed a list of leading figures in SDS, most of whom had already been well-publicized by the media of their respective areas. The McClellan Committee has since moved on to an investigation of the Black Panthers and other black militants...
...response to a Congressional subpoena, Harvard administrators sent a Senate committee the names of 32 students who were arrested in University Hall and who also receive Federal aid. Senator John McClellan (D-Ark)'s Permanent Subcommittee on Investigation had sent five Harvard deans a list of 175 students arrested in the demonstration. The committee then subpoenaed the deans to say which of the students received Federal money. Harvard administrators denounced the investigation but said that Federal law compelled them to obey...
Resisting the first supoena would have been stupid and pointless. McClellan would still get the information, but Chase Peterson and the other deans would go to jail. But when the committee starts looking for information that is not already sitting in government files, the University's decision will be more important. Fifteen years ago, the Administration denounced Communists but also tried to thwart Joe McCarthy. President Pusey has built part of his reputation on that stand. If he and the members of the Corporation still believe in those principles, they should make it clear that they will not play along...
Part of the University's response can come in simple practical steps. When McClellan subpoenaed the records of several organizations at Stanford and Berkeley, he found he could get nothing from Harvard. Since the old McCarthy days, Harvard has avoided those detailed organization records. The same prudence should convince the President and Fellows to assume formal responsibility for the student records that McClellan may soon look into. Individual deans should not have to face the choice of obeying a subpoena or going to jail. Harvard University is in a much better position to have a showdown with McClellan...