Word: antiwar
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...years ago, in an escalation of similar magnitude. American ground troops invaded Cambodia. Antiwar feeling on American campuses coalesced into a national student strike. That strike, joined in a moment of crisis, delivered an ultimatum to the American government: you cannot expand the war in Asia without risking massive disruption at home. The ultimatum was successful: the invading force withdrew. American students catalyzed a national movement that helped to save the lives of Americans. Vietnamese, and Cambodians. The ever-rising trajectory of the war began to turn downward...
...Portuguese said that most of what antiwar sentiment exists is found in the colleges. They added that some of the soldiers have deserted the army and have formed an antiwar organization-- analogous to the Vietnam Veterans Against the War--that is based in Algeria and Sweden...
...George McGovern, hitherto regarded as a one-issue antiwar champion of the liberal-left, exploited his own superb organization in the state, tapped deep wells of economic discontent and, by winning a 30% plurality, transformed himself at last into a major candidate. In Wisconsin his support was astonishingly broad, bracketing liberals, conservatives, blue-collar workers, farmers, suburbanites and the young...
...earliest and most persistent antiwar Senators, McGovern began building a small but strong following with his co-sponsorship of the 1968 McGovern-Hatfield resolution calling for an end to the war. Though unsuccessful, the legislation occasioned a rare flash of fire from the quiet man. "Every Senator in this chamber is partly responsible for sending 50,000 young Americans to an early grave," McGovern fumed. "This chamber reeks of blood!" When Robert Kennedy was assassinated, McGovern sought to keep Bobby's antiwar supporters together by entering the race in his stead less than three weeks before the 1968 convention...
That strategy might have been sound if the premises had been right. Muskie at his best is far more inspiring than Nixon, who does have credibility problems and is unpredictable. Nixon had sounded shrill and unfair as he tried to link Democrats with crime, drugs and antiwar violence during the 1970 congressional campaigns, while Muskie on that election eve effectively deplored such tactics and appealed for a return to reason. Perhaps the voters did long for a calmer, loftier leader...