Word: antiwar
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...would drastically cut back military spending, his restrained response-or non-response-to the Communist offensive in Viet Nam unsettled some of his more hawkish supporters. Some of his critics attacked on both fronts. South Dakota's George McGovern, one of the Senate's most steadfast antiwar spokesmen, called the ABM decision, "a blunder comparable to the decision to escalate the war in Viet Nam in 1965." In a speech planned for delivery this week, McGovern aimed one of the bitterest attacks on the war heard since the 1968 election: "We hear that the war is going well...
...Nixon and his advisers were relieved, not least because the President has not yet fully formulated his Viet Nam policy. To be forced into resumption of the bombing of North Viet Nam at this juncture would severely limit his options for now and bring all of L.BJ.'s antiwar critics out in full cry anew-including a substantial number in the countries that Nixon visited last week...
...Express reporters covered all the candidates, examined the antiwar sentiment and racial conflict that lay be hind the election. Working from his reporters' lengthy files, English knocked out a rough draft of half the book in New York before Election Day. He shifted to London for seven weeks of fevered final writing, much of the time locked in a room with his closest collaborator, Correspondent Richard Kilian. "We thought we were never going to finish," English says...
...shunned anyone they thought likely to feel undue sympathy for the underdog. While examining jury panel members last week, the state exercised peremptory challenges against the only Negro who had been provisionally seated, against a woman who had worked with psychiatric patients and against another woman suspected of having antiwar views...
...town was outside the old Willard Hotel, where tickets to inaugural events were on sale. The Republicans did not have the field to themselves. A group of Democrats and some newsmen staged the "First Quadrennial Pre-Inaugural Extra-Dimensional Ball," and found a heavy demand for tickets. Meanwhile, antiwar groups organized protest demonstrations...