Word: abm
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Much congressional reaction was bitter, and it seemed evident that he had hardened opposition to his Safeguard ABM plan into the bargain. Said Senator James Pearson, a Kansas Republican and an ABM foe: "I disagree with the President. I don't think it's isolationism to oppose excessive military spending." Some Democratic Senators were more abrupt. Said Albert Gore of Tennessee: "It sounded like the old Nixon I used to know." But Nixon won support from Louisiana's Russell Long and Virginia's Harry Byrd Jr. Noted Byrd: "I think he said some things which needed...
Several Harvard-connected figures joined the new-born fight against the ABM. Mrs. Bunting and Abram J. Chayes, professor of Law, were among 44 founders of the New England Citizens Committee on the Anti-Ballistic Missile. At the same time, another Faculty member went to Washington to join the Nixon administration. Paul W. Cherington, James J. Hill Professor of Transportation, followed John Volpe to the Transportation Department and became Assistant Secretary of Transportation for Policy and International Affairs...
...Outspokenly opposed the ABM...
...Hershey and local draft boards have their ways of dealing with dissent, but removing Federal support for universities will not change that situation at all. More important, I am not aware that Yale has suffered for the actions of William Sloan Coffin, or Harvard or M.I.T. for the anti-ABM views of Abram Chayes or Jerome Wiesner. Neither am I aware that any university suffered because its students and faculty were active in the Dump Johnson movement or anti-Vietnam war activities...
...Government officials might be more cautious in the language they use about Communist China. Much justification for the ABM, for instance, initially stressed that the system was designed against Chinese nuclear attack. The implication, holds University of Chicago Political Scientist Tang Tsou, is that "the Chinese leaders are mad enough to think of attacking the U.S. and thus inviting U.S. retaliation. The argument only encourages the radicals in China...