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...small group of senior Faculty members, led by the late Robert J. McCloskey, professor of Government, and including Wolff and Oscar Handlin, Charles Warren Professor of American History, began meeting informally in September. In January, after students sat in at the Paine Hall Faculty meeting, the professors agreed the Faculty was in a crisis situation and the caucus began meeting formally...
...conservatives stopped meeting is almost a footnote in Faculty history. The caucus was beset with internal problems. Two of its leaders-Wolff and McCloskey-had suffered heart attacks. Prominent professors who might have replaced them had, instead, taken over the administration during the summer. Ernest R. May, professor of History, had become Dean of the College: Dunlop became Dean of the Faculty in January. James Q. Wilson, professor of Government, spent the year embroiled...
...State Department press officer, Robert J. McCloskey, conceded that South Vietnamese troops might remain in Cambodia after the U.S. troops withdrew. And on the same day, Lieut. General Do Cao Tri, one of the senior commanders of Saigon's forces in Cambodia, said that South Vietnamese troops might stay indefinitely, until the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces were driven out of Cambodia...
...Idaho's Frank Church and Oregon's Mark Hatfield asked for "a more rapid withdrawal of American troops"; George McGovern wanted an immediate pullout. On the House side, a vague resolution in support of eventual disengagement drew 109 cosponsors. But liberal Republicans Donald Riegle Jr. of Michigan and Paul McCloskey Jr. of California produced something stronger: a proposal to repeal, effective at the end of 1970, the 1964 Tonkin Gulf resolution under which President Johnson proceeded to bomb North Viet Nam and build the U.S. troop level in South Viet Nam past the half-million mark. None of the flat...
Question of Significance. McCloskey was ready with a prepared statement. "There has been a considerable reduction in infiltration," he said, adding that the North was no longer sending as many men South as it had lost in battle. Many newsmen came away from the briefing with the conviction that Secretary of State William Rogers, who is committed to 'U.S. disengagement, had orchestrated McCloskey's performance in an effort to create a climate conducive to new U.S. withdrawals...