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Other speakers at the Harvard Teach-In will be: James C. Thomson, former staff member of the National Security Council and now assistant professor of History; Bella Abzug, the flamboyant Democratic Congresswoman from New York; Stanley Hoffmann, professor of Government; Walter Pincus, former staff director of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee; and Cynthia K. Frederick, former Harvard teaching fellow and recent visitor to North and South Vietnam...
Although he believes that President Nixon and his staff "probably mean what they're saying, that they want to take out American troops without really looking like we're forced to get out," Stanley H. Hoffmann, professor of Government, said he was "worried about the gap between intentions and end results...
...This can go on forever," Hoffmann said. "The end result may be to oblige us to help give the South Vietnamese breathing space for ever and ever-which would be patently absurd, but would not be the first absurd thing that's happened in this...
...invaded Cambodia last May because a steady increase in American casualties before the invasion presented the Administration with a choice of invading Cambodia or withdrawing from Vietnam completely, Henry A. Kissinger '50 told a group of students led by Stanley H. Hoffmann, professor of Government-who visited him last month in the White House...
...About 20 undergraduates and graduate students flew with Hoffmann to Washington to attend the meeting which was held strictly off the record at Kissinger's request. The session was held in the White House Situation Room, where President Nixon is briefed during crises. As Kissinger talked with the group, students could see a map of Cambodia on the wall...