How far do we go in tolerating these people & this trash under the excuse of academic freedom & freedom of expression? . . . Hasn’t the time come to take on those neurotics in our faculty group and lay down some rules of conduct for the students comparable to what we’d expect in our own families?”
No, this is not a threat from President Donald Trump in 2025.
It is an excerpt from an August 1967 letter from Ronald Reagan, who had been elected the governor of California six months prior, to Glenn Dumke, the chancellor of the California State University system.