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...Mayflower Hotel, addressing a liberal group called the National Committee on Pockets of Poverty, Economist-Author John Kenneth Galbraith (The Affluent Society) raked his fellow New Frontiersmen over the coals for opting to stay on with Johnson, whom he considers something less than forward-looking. Said Galbraith, a former ambassador to India who returned to Harvard before Kennedy's death: "To those who feel that they best serve by endowing the scene with their presence rather than by pursuing their convictions, let me simply say that I agree it is a good life. But also a bit like being...
...very great friends, Actually, of course, a generic academic type and no particular person was intended. I do not know why this department was selected. It is a mark of the inadvertence that in the earliest published version of the piece, the reference was to another department. John Kenneth Galbraith Paul M. Warburg Professor of Economics
Among those attending the ceremonies were John Kenneth Galbraith, Paul M. Warburg Professor of Economics; James R. Killian, Jr., chairman of the M.I.T. board of trustees; Arthur N. Holcombe '06, Eaton Professor of the Science of Government, emeritus; and Bruce C. Hopper '18, associate professor of Government, emeritus...
...Galbraith recounted that, soon after still very strong, "not because of the power of our military machine or the eloquence of our diplomats, great as that is," but because of the aid program. He also stressed that India must "come to grips with the population problem...
...Galbraith was optimistic over the future of democratic institutions in India and Pakistan, stating that the British had left "a very deep faith in parliamentary institutions" in both countries...