Word: aikens
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...back in 1966, Republican Senator George Aiken of Vermont suggested that the U.S. should claim victory and come home. We may well have accomplished more in South Viet Nam than in our present mood we give ourselves credit for. The point is, we have now done what we could. President Nixon should stress more often that America has made an enormous effort, far beyond anything that could have been considered a diplomatic or moral contract with South Viet Nam. He should also emphasize America's willingness to contribute generously to the postwar economic development of Viet Nam, North...
...chance the Mansfield amendment may once have had. It was handily defeated in the Senate, 61 to 36, and compromise amendments were voted down as well.* In the process, however, Nixon used up a lot of his credit with Congress. "I'll say they overreacted," Republican Senator George Aiken complained of the Administration. "All they were missing was Hannibal saying that we needed more elephants to cross the Alps for NATO...
...protests by dissident Viet Nam veterans. "The vets left a really strong and favorable impression," said an aide to one of the Senate's most outspoken doves. "But these kids are destroying it." One group that appeared before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee reduced Vermont Senator George Aiken, a persistent war critic, to sounding like a right-wing bumper sticker. Advising them that there was no law against leaving the U.S., he snapped: "Why the hell do you stay here if other countries are so much better...
...their country against Communist aggression." Then he cited the damage inflicted on the Communists in the Cambodian incursion and claimed to have hurt the enemy even more in the Laos operation. That led Nixon to conclude without qualification that "Vietnamization has succeeded," a statement reminiscent of Republican Senator George Aiken's wry advice five years ago: that the U.S. unilaterally declare victory and leave. Why, then, his critics could ask, is Nixon not ready to quit the war now or set a deadline for doing...
...Mary Stewart, the most accomplished. Right behind come such veterans of genteel fiction as Norah Lofts, Catherine Gaskin and Phyllis Whitney, the only American in this group who has a major reputation. Elizabeth Goudge tends toward "atmosphere" and romantic biography. There are newcomers coming along-Jill Tattersall, Jane Aiken Hodge-but neither has yet had a major...