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Nadav Safran, associate professor of Government suggested the Speak-out. Its purpose, he said, was "to keep the fires of dissent and protest alive in America." It is definitely not to be a teach-in, a debate, or even a discussion, he added, asserting that people already have enough factual information about Vietnam...
Never in the history of the United Stated has a President marshalled the opinions of so many people in private discussion, or been so tolerant of behind-closed-doors dissent. However, few have ever been so sensitive to public criticism, especially that originating in the press. Relations between LBJ and all but a select few of the nation's columnists (William S. White, his campaign biographer and Max Freedman, whose words seem to parody those of the President, are the two main exceptions) are chilly at best...
...Conquered Provinces." In a partial, and unexpected, dissent, the court's foremost libertarian, Hugo Black, objected to the act's requirements that offending states clear any new voting laws with the U.S. Attorney General or with the federal District Court in Washington, D.C. By forcing the states to "entreat federal authorities in faraway places for approval of local laws," protested Black, the act implied that they were "little more than conquered provinces...
...dissent was far from a revolt against Johnson and was much milder than some of the Senate's historic uprisings against the White House. It was a challenge nonetheless, and a reassertion of the Senate's constitutional mandate to give "advice and consent" to all treaties and, by projection, to all U.S. foreign policies. Irritating as it may seem in times of crisis, the founding fathers intended that the Senate should act in just this way-as a chamber of deliberate counsel, second thoughts and extended debate, a guardian against rashness on the part either of the popularly...
William S. Barus '67, temporary chairman, explained that the club is being formed to protest Attorney General Nicholas DeB. Katzenbach's demand that the national DuBois Club register as a Communist-front organization. "The DuBois Club must not be the first of a string of dissent organizations to dissolve simply at the mention of the McCarran Act" Barus said...