A COUNT OF BROKEN PROMISES

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• Publication Date: July 7, 1968
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"The air attacks on mihtary targets in North Vietnam have
imposed and will continue to impose a growing burden on
those who wage war against the freedom of their? neigh-
bors . . .
"And if you are too busy or not inclined to help, please count
10 before you hurt."
Lyndon B. Johnson, President of the United States,
Omaha, Nebr., June 30, 1966
FliiL0 AMERICANS:
We have counted ten, long past ten. It is a
count of brokeulaime.
Ten times we were told that our government
seeks no military solution to the tangled issue
of Vietnam. Ten times and more we have seen
the use of force exclude all else.
Ten times we were told that our allies support
us. We count more than ten allies who will not
follow us into the Vietnam adventure.
Ten times we were told "we seek no wider
war." For 20 months our government has widen-
ed the war. American planes from Guam and
Thailand now bomb up to the'frontiers of China.
We are coming closer to the brink of ultimate
War.
? Ten times we were told that Americans are in
Vietnam to help a legitimate government defend
itself. More than ten times we have seen the
rulers' in Saigon exposed as a military clique that
is not a government, not legitimate, and not
really defending itself.
We were told that we are fighting aggression."
Yet the leading experts on Vietnam say this is a
civil war among South Vietnamese. The chief
outside military force consists of American
troops, ships, and planes.
We were told: "We 'want the killing to stop."
Yet, we have seen it grow in scale and proliferate
in technique. - Daily our newspapers give us, the,
count of the victims of bombs and napalm.
WE HAVE COUNTED ENOUGH
We will not consent by default to a policy so self-righteous, so unseeing, so ineffective', so danger'.
bus and so cruel.
We call for a clear change in policy, with the resignation of those Cabinet officers most responsible
for the current crisis.
We call upon our government:
'
? I. To cease all bombing, North and South, and all other offensive
military operations _immediately;
, .2. To negotiate with the National Liberation Front and all other
.
intcrcstecl for a peaceful settlement;
3. To encourage and in no way interfere with the free exercise of
popular sovereignty in Vietnam;
To realize that the interest of self-determination for the Viet,.
namese, as well as our own national interest, will beat be served
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WE 17,ARNESTLY PT.EDGE THAT UNLESS t HE PRESIDENT MOVES TO HALT THE ES.?
CALATION OF WAR IN VIETNAM AND TO SEEK A NEGOTIATED SETTLEMENT WITH
THE NATIONAL LIBERATION FRONT AND ITS ALLIES, WE WILL BEGIN N 0 W TO
0? WORK FOR HIS DEFEAT AT THE POLLS IN 1968 AND WE WILL ACTIVELY OPPOSE
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HIS SUPPORTERS IN THIS YEAR.
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This Open Letter can be reprinted without permission. We suggest-the.widest publication, distribu-.
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JUL
S. Alexander, M.D., Harvard
Medical School
H. Amos, Harvard Medical
School
F. Anderson, 'Las University
H. I,. AnderS45117-ew York
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J. ?L. Anderson, Stevens in-
B. Arnowitt, l'infaten_...stern
K. C. Atwood, Univ.ir Of
Illinois
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M. L. Bade,
S I,. Baird, Jr., 04?44944t4,11
University
E. Baylor, Woods Hole Ocean-
ographic Institute ?
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Laboratory
J. Beckwith, Harvard Medical
School
E. Bell, M. I. T.
T. I,. 73Th-,1i."111117, institute for
Biomedical Research, Chi-
cago
M. L. V. Bennett, Columbia
University
H. W. Bentley, Woods Hole
Oceanographic Institute
E. Berczeller, Boston Univer-
s
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A. Blum; Bostnit University
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versity
J. E. Brown,
A. F. Blinker, Woods Hole
Oceanographic Institute
A. L. Burnett, Western Re-
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F. G. Carey, Woods Hole
Oceanographic Institute
B. Carnap, UCLA
13. Chasan, Boston University.
B. G. Chevigny, Queens Col-
lege
S. Childress, New York Uni- '
versItv
N. Choinsky, N. T. T.
S. L. Chorover, N. L T.
E. Clark, Columbia University
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of Medicine
E. P. Cohen, Philadelphia
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R. Erwin, Harvard Center for
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M. Filson, Northeastern Univ.
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H. Guggenheim, New York
University
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Med. Sch. .
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College of Med.
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A. .E. Haschemeyer, Harvard
Med. Sch.
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H. Hiatt, Harvard Univ.
?M. Hoagland, Harvard Med.
H. Hoitzer, Univ. of Pennsyl-
vania
L. N. Howard, M. Y. T.
N. Howell, Harvard Univ.
T. Humphreys, Univ. of Cali-
fornia, San Diego
I. Isenberg, Oregon State Uni-
versity
Jacobson, Newton
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D. Kalish, UCLA
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I. W.. Konigsberg, Univ. of
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C. Kornetsky, Boston Univ.
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F. Koss, Boston University,
P. Krupa, City Univ. of New
, York
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R. Lee, Harvard Univ. '
L. Leibowitz, Northeastern
Univ.
N. Leitenberg
E. Lenneberg, Harvard Univ.
J. Levine, Harvard Univ.
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ographic Institute .
C. Levinthal, N. L T. .
F. Litman, Harvard Univ. ?
R. Minas, University of Min-
nesota -
j. H. Lochhead, Univ. of Ver-
mont
It. 13: Loftfield, Univ. of New
Mexico
I. London, Albert \Einstein
Coll. of Medicine
? B. Lown, Harvard Sch., of
Public Health
S. E. Luria, M. I. T.
Z. H. Luria, Tufts University
B. Magasanik, N. I. T.
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W. V. R. Malkus, UCLA -
P. C. Mangelsdorf, Jr., Swarth...,
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D. Marsh, Woods Hole Ocean- ?
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Virginia
M. Mendelson, New York ?
Univ. Medical School .
A. F. MirsIcy, Boston Univ. of
Medicine
E. E. Noise, Harvard Univ. '
G. P. Moore, UCLA
N. Morlock, Columbia Univ. ?
L. J. Mullins, University of
Ma iyiand
N. Nacneroff, University of '
Pennsylvania
N. Nasatir, Brown University
P. Nash, Boston University .
U. Nelson, Emory University .
P. Nossiter, Sea Pines School
Mrs. P. Nossiter, Sea Pines !
School
0. D. Pappas, Columbia 'Univ.
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R. L. Pick, Jr., Univ. of Min- -
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M. A. Pinsky, N. I. T.
B. Qualls, M. I. T.
C, Rappaport, Yale University
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J. S. Roth, Univ. of Con.
necticut
L. P. Rowland, Columbia
University
S. I. Rubinow, Cornell Univ.
11.3. Rutman, Univ. of Penn-
sylvania
I. Samuels, Northeastern
Univ.
G. Santas, Brandeis Univ. ?
J. IV. Saunders, Jr., Univ. of
Pennsylvania
L. Saunders, Philadelphia Cal-
lege of Pharmacy
R. Schiller, Stevens Institute
? of Technology
II. A. Schneiderman, Western
Reserve University
B. G. Schoepf, Fairleigh Dick-,
bison University
T. U. Schwartz, Columbia
University
J. It. Seeley, Brandeis Univ.
D. Shemin, Columbia Univ.
D. Shepro, Simmons, College
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seh.
V. Side, Harvard Med.
? A. Siegel, Woods Hole Ocean-
? ographic Institute
S. B. Simpson, Western Re-
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3. Rachel, Boston University
Stansky, Harvard Univ.
N. Starr, Mathematician
N. It. Stein, Brandeis Univ.
A. Steinberg, N. 1. T.
W. Steil, Univ. of Chicago
M. Stodoisky, N. I. T.
S. Stodoisky, Harvard Univ.
.?11.CSotnoengiemel, N. I. T. ,
N. Sullivan, Rhode Island
S. Switzer, Albert Einstein
Col. of Medicine ?
A. Szent-Gyorgyi, Marine Bi-, .
illogical Laboratory,
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? State College
J. P. Trinkaus, Yale Univ.
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N. P. Vaughn, Northea.sterri '
Univ. )
Viertel, N. 1. T.
W.buSr.gVhincent, Univ. of Pitts-
0. Wald, Harvard University
FL Wald, Harvard University
L. Warren, Univ. of Pennsyl-
vania
N. Wartof,sky, Boston Univ.
. A. G. Wasserman, Harvard
? University
? W. B. Watson, M. I. T.
J. A. Weston, Western Reserve
' University
H. C. Willett, M. I. T.
T. H. Wilson, Harvard Med. ?
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G. V, M. T. T.'
P. H. iVolff, Harvard Med.
School
H. Zinn, Boston University -
E. Zwilling, Brandeis Univ. ;
. Affiliations given for purposes of identification only. ?
1966 ' \?
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