Bok, Calkins Are Catalogued As Nixon Foes

President Bok heads a group of Harvard luminaries named in a list of "political opponents" of the Nixon Administration made public last week by John W. Dean III in testimony before the Senate Watergate committee.

Also on the list were Hugh Calkins, Fellow of Harvard College, John Kenneth Galbraith, Warburg Professor of Economics, and Mathew S. Meselson, professor of Biology.

Dean said the list was compiled in mid-1971 by the office of Charles W. Colson, then a special White House counselor. Dean also released a list of what he said were the Administration's top 20 "political enemies." No Harvard officials were on this list.

Bok said last night both lists indicated "pettiness" in high government circles that is "deeply harmful to the quality of public life in the country."

"I had no strong reaction one way or the other beyond a feeling of deep disillusionment with what has happened to government," Bok said.

Dean last week also released a memorandum he said he authored in 1971 which recommended that the White House attempt to "use the available Federal machinery to screw our political enemies."

Bok said he had "no evidence" that the White House had attempted in the past several years to harass either himself or Harvard, although he said his first reaction was one of "concern" that such government moves might have been made. "Reflecting upon the past, I have no sense that the University has suffered," Bok said.

Bok said he thought his antiwar statements and his efforts to block the nomination of G. Harrold Carswell to the Supreme Court three years ago while he was dean of the Law School had earned him a position on the list.

Calkins said yesterday his initial reaction to the list was one of "surprise." "Why should I out of the many people who have criticized the president be on the list?" he asked.

Calkins said he thought his name was placed on the list because he opposed the Nixon Vietnam policy and because he advocated school integration. "I suspect Vietnam had more to do with it because the White House is more uptight about the war," he said.

Calkins said he thought the Federal Bureau of Investigation had been the vehicle by which his antiwar statements had reached the White House. "We know the FBI was out in force in 1969 and I suspect they reported my statements at various meetings at Harvard," he explained.

Calkins, a Cleveland attorney, comes to Harvard frequently for Corporation meetings.

Galbraith said yesterday he had three reactions to his being listed: "I am disappointed I did not make the top 20. I reject all homosexual implications of the list [a reference to Dean's memo about 'screwing' enemies]. It would have been ghastly not to be on the list at all."JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH