Nguyen took issue with a ceremony honoring Tom Hayden, a former member of the body who was famous for protesting the Vietnam War and supporting Hanoi along with his then-wife Jane Fonda.

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The group adopts an official political manifesto, the Port Huron Statement, based largely on a draft by Tom Hayden (later of the Chicago Seven). We are people of this generation, bred in at least ...