[00:00]-[17:28]: Marshall Windmiller, a self-proclaimed member of the middle-class, offers a definition of hippies and shares concerns about how the hippie phenomenon may damage prospects for a "free and prosperous America." Windmiller goes on to speculate that the hippie phenomenon is a byproduct of the American education system (primary and secondary school) and an unwillingness to "tell it like it is." Related events include the rise of Community for New Politics, red-baiting, and the upcoming Spring Mobilization.
[17:35]-[31:19]: Windmiller discusses communism as defined by others as "conspirtorial, immoral, and undemocratic" and responds to a Thomas W. Braden article in the Saturday Evening Post titled "I'm Glad the CIA is 'Immoral'." He argues that it does not make sense to fight against communism with the same kinds of tactics that define communism.
[31:29]-[50:55]: Windmiller examines the beginnings of America as written about by Edmund Burke and Thomas Paine. Compares it to the declaration of independents in Hanoi and calls for Americans to examine the war in Vietnam through that lens.
[50:59]-[1:05:30]: Windmiller on "respectability," selling goods to the government, and the current state of the Democratic Party.
[01:05:58]-end: Historical program on Germany after the end of WWI
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Note on reel: "(Inside Tape) I. M. Windmiller, 1967 (a) 3/30 S.F. + the Hippies (b) 5/11 'Morality, CIA + Tom Braden' (beginning: 'Many professors think there is nothing wrong -- CIA' erased by mistake) c) 5/24 M. Windmiller: A Historical Comparison (his last commentary this season) (d) 4/67 Marshall Windmiller: On Responsibility"
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