Word: antiwar
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...seek a settlement rather than invite continued insupportable losses. Yet, ridiculous as it seems, there are indications that the North Vietnamese regime is convinced that Lyndon Johnson's war policy will be overwhelmingly repudiated by American voters on Nov. 8. Hanoi, misled by the noisy dissent of antiwar groups in the U.S., may well be in for a rude shock...
...stand. It may also decide the outcome of several House races, where independent peace candidates might take votes from hard-pressed Democratic freshmen such as Michigan's Weston Vivian and New York's Lester Wolff. So far, however, no candidate of either party who ran on an antiwar platform has won. Last week, in a bitter rerun of a contested Democratic primary in a predominantly Jewish and Italian-American district in Manhattan, five-term Congressman Leonard Farbstein, who supports the Administration's Viet Nam policy, won renomination by a bigger margin than in June. In most races...
Contrary to most predictions, the 1966 primary elections were little affected by the obvious emotional issues of the hour. Huff and puff as they might, no candidates were able to whip up any meaningful support for antiwar protests. Nor was there any evidence of reaction against the Johnson Administration's Great Society legislation. There were no measurable swings toward either liberal or conservative sentiment; there was not even any contest between Kennedy Democrats and Humphrey loyalists. Nor did the new black-power militancy of the American Negro influence the voting to any great extent...
...away at Collins' "public-be-damned" redevelopment program and recounting his own liberal record as Governor. Responding sympathetically to Peabody's image of ingenuous honesty, the voters gave him 321,035 votes to 265,213 for Collins. A third candidate, Boston Brahmin Thomas Boylston Adams, mounted an antiwar campaign, but got only 51,483 votes...
...Martin Luther King Jr. Atlanta's Negro leaders were more outspoken; they adopted a resolution condemning the riot as "irresponsible" and "shameful." Julian Bond, the Atlanta Negro who was elected to the Georgia legislature last winter but later denied his seat for condoning draft card-burning as an antiwar gesture, resigned as S.N.C.C. publicity director. Other Atlanta Negroes set fire to a pile of S.N.C.C. literature and demanded that the local S.N.C.C. chapter move out of their neighborhood...