Word: antiwar
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...press conference, Javits read a letter from a former P.O.W. stating that a tape made of Clark's remarks in Hanoi had been a "harmful blow to our morale." Clark, wrote the P.O.W., had encouraged prisoners in their "cooperation with the enemy in generating antiwar statements." Clark's position was especially "devastating" to those who had been put in solitary confinement and were trying to maintain their allegiance to their country. In reply, Clark accused Javits of an "orgy of McCarthyism...
...that point, the authors believe, Haldeman, Ehrlichman and Mitchell were determined to humiliate, rather than pacify, the left. They reinforced Nixon's own suspicions and joined him in trying to destroy Daniel Ellsberg, a symbol of antiwar, anti-Middle America dissent, for leaking the Pentagon papers. The plumbers were installed. Spiro Agnew was unleashed. Enemy lists flourished. Watergate followed...
...accurate forecast but an unnecessary one. After a few more picketing assignments-notably antiwar demonstrations in New York and the Poor People's March on Washington-Valerie and Dick moved to Los Angeles, where Schaal founded his own theater company, including Valerie, who acquired some polish and a few more ounces. When she heard that MTM was auditioning for the part of a Bronx Jewish girl, she tried out without much hope: "I'm not Jewish, not from New York, and I have a small shiksa nose." She was, in fact, a lapsed Catholic...
...Harvards. When Kearns met the then President in 1967, she was a promising young academic, a White House Fellow, and an antiwar activist who had just co-authored a New Republic article calling for Johnson to be driven from public life. Yet L.B.J. took a shine to her, personally assigned her to White House duties, and gradually confided in her. As the relationship grew, he pressed small gifts on her, including one electric toothbrush after another -twelve...
...Nazis, "Taskmaster" to his hard-driven aides in Viet Nam and "an American hero" to President Ford. From his emergence as a tank commander in World War II to his death last week of lung-cancer complications at 59, Creighton Abrams Jr. won respect even from enemies abroad and antiwar activists at home...