Word: anti-communist
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...friend or foe, would have suspected that in his first term the onetime anti-Communist zealot would travel on a mission of peace and good will to both Peking and Moscow? Or that he could do it with a minimal domestic opposition from the guardians of the old cold war varieties? So, against all odds, the hope persists that he could still make a fresh, dramatic start at home, transcending his limited political constituency, indeed transcending himself, and thus eventually laying claim to being a great President...
...seized their opportunity to scrutinize the Soviet leadership. Bluff and hearty, Brezhnev was obviously doing his best to make his guests feel at home. At their initial meeting, the first smile crossed Kosygin's face when Nixon rather pointedly mentioned that "I have a reputation as a longtime anti-Communist." Brezhnev's wife Viktoria told the press that her husband had "been in a good mood lately and that's not always the case...
...essential question, though, is what kind of government might replace the Thieu regime, and under what circumstances. The North Vietnamese have long made it clear that they want Thieu, the hard-line anti-Communist whose principal base of support is the military, out of office even before a ceasefire. Time and again they have insisted that the settlement of a postwar government in the South is a precondition to peace...
...coalition of forces from government, industry, and conservative labor leaders fanned anti-communist hysteria to defeat the CIO-UAW goal of an independent international labor movement...
...take a more detached and longer perspective. If he did so, Nixon could perhaps develop and articulate a policy for Southeast Asia that fits logically with his constructive overtures to China and the Soviet Union and his grand design for peace. At present, even the most sophisticated young anti-Communist in Asia must be totally confused at the thought of mighty air and naval armadas massed against an apparently independent little Communist nation while the President negotiates cordially with the two major Communist powers...