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...Nixon had tried to fine-tune his war policy by modulated maneuvers, but suddenly the home front reverted to a battle for the weary hearts and minds of Americans. There are no lines from the White House that link up with the Vermont Avenue headquarters of the Viet Nam Moratorium Committee, whose first nationwide demonstration, scheduled for Oct. 15, appears to be gathering momentum beyond all expectations. Nixon cannot turn a knob or issue an order that will still Democratic Senators Mike Mansfield and William Fulbright. He cannot even silence Republican Senator Charles Goodell...
...other problems, President Nixon was finding a remark he had made at his press conference the week before coming back to haunt him. He would not, he had insisted, "be affected whatever" by antiwar protests like the Moratorium Day activities planned for Oct. 15. More than any of the newspaper ads placed by the day's organizers, that defiant -some would say contemptuous-stand galvanized much of the nation's factional peace movement. Some 1,500 letters of support and more than $1,000 descended daily on the confused but jubilant Viet Nam Moratorium Committee staff in Washington...
Unfortunately, the sloppy manner in which the Faculty handled the vote on the anti-war resolution guaranteed that its "public stand" would have the minimum effect. And its defeat of the Mendelsohn resolution on the Vietnam Moratorium was an inexcusable rejection of a relatively non-controversial motion...
...even granting those fears were sincere, the Faculty's handling of the motion on the Vietnam Moratorium is difficult to understand. The Moratorium resolution may have seemed tainted with political content, but the Moratorium itself has gained such widespread support that a mere expression of "support" could hardly have been viewed as a precedent. If the Boston City Council finds this protest worthy of endorsement, and three local universities have cancelled classes to observe it, then the Faculty should have been able to suspend its long-guarded neutrality...
...series of votes on the anti-war resolution showed mainly how easily the Faculty can lose its legislative way. For some unexplained reason, the 268 votes that joined to amend the Moratorium resolution couldn't get together to call a recess-the obvious strategy for avoiding a formal vote. And when they finally faced a vote, the opponents seemed to have no ready plan for voting or abstaining...