Word: antiwar
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Republicans, of course, have as yet failed to come up with a cohesive position that offers any reasonable alternative to present policy. At this point in the political calendar, however, their best strategy is to wait upon events; whatever happens, it seems unlikely that they will adopt an extreme antiwar position. Meanwhile, Romney is looking ahead, and it seems likely that in coming months moderate G.O.P. leaders will coalesce behind...
...antiwar voices were the most strident. Ohio's Democratic Senator Stephen Young cried out against the "spectacle" of an American admiral, CINCPAC Commander Ulysses S. Grant Sharp, who is the military overseer of the Viet Nam war, asking for more effective bombing in the North. Other politicians, ranging from Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield to Republican Presidential Hopeful Charles Percy, pointed up the threat of Chinese and/or Russian involvement in the war as a result of the wider bombing. For the hawks, House Republican Leader Gerald Ford took an opposite position: "Why are we pulling our punches...
...will not support Johnson for President in 1968." Other Democratic Party workers are trying to put on the pressure. A New York-based group called Citizens for Kennedy-Fulbright released a letter, signed by 50 former Democratic Convention delegates, asking the President not to seek re-election because of antiwar sentiment within the party. Washington Attorney Joseph Rauh, vice chairman of the Americans for Democratic Action, announced that he is starting a personal campaign aimed not at "dumping Johnson" but at writing a "peace plank" into the 1968 Democratic platform...
...replace the rifle with the burp gun. Increasingly active as a speaker and marcher against U.S. involvement in Viet Nam, and co-chairman of the National Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy, the Great Pacifier told a press conference in Washington that SANE in 1968 "will energetically support" an antiwar candidate, even if he has to run himself. Meanwhile out in California, the jokesters proposed On the Good Ship Lollipop as a campaign song for Shirley Temple, now Mrs. Charles Black, 39, wife of a San Francisco businessman and a dabbler in Republican politics, who announced that she will probably...
Apart from the wardrobe, nothing about this comedy wears well. Though Director Philippe de Broca (That Man from Rio) obviously hoped to make King of Hearts a memorable antiwar statement, his pacific gravity slows the film to a standstill. His lunatics are self consciously carefree, crowning the bewildered soldier their king of hearts, capering about the streets in a parade of spats and parasols. The warring troops are composed entirely of vaudeville krauts and British louts whose follies have been chronicled in a thousand previous service comedies. In a conclusion telegraphed from the beginning, Bates, who has miraculously saved...