{"id":1419,"date":"1965-12-03T03:28:53","date_gmt":"1965-12-03T03:28:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/?p=1419"},"modified":"2018-10-12T03:31:23","modified_gmt":"2018-10-12T03:31:23","slug":"debate-opens-symposium-on-vietnam-at-amherst-college","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/1965\/12\/03\/debate-opens-symposium-on-vietnam-at-amherst-college\/","title":{"rendered":"Debate opens symposium on Vietnam at Amherst College"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>December 3-4, 1965<\/p>\n<p>Debate opens symposium on Vietnam at Amherst College<\/p>\n<p><i>A symposium on Vietnam at Amherst College opened with a debate between two figures with radically different viewpoints: Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense Alvin Friedman, who affirmed that to enable the people of Vietnam to be free \u201cwe must use military power\u201d; and Professor Henry Steele Commager, who rejected the premise that the U.S. was protecting the interests and wellbeing of the Vietnamese people, \u201cfor the attack comes from us\u201d.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><b><i>The symposium schedule can be found here: <\/i><\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/316\/2018\/10\/1965.12.02-Talks-Examine-Asian-Problems.jpg\"><b><i>Talks Examine Asian Problems<\/i><\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/316\/2018\/10\/1965.12.09-Symposium-Reveals-Different-Views-on-Vietnam.jpg\"><b><i>Symposium Reveals Different Views on Vietnam<\/i><\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p>[Last updated on October 11, 2018]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>December 3-4, 1965 Debate opens symposium on Vietnam at Amherst College A symposium on Vietnam [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2028,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[40,43],"class_list":["post-1419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1960s","tag-40","tag-vietnam-war","entry","grid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2028"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1419"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1420,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1419\/revisions\/1420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}