Word: antiwar
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...chose Harrisburg as a focal point to direct our general antiwar sentiment," Lineberger said...
When it was first conceived in 1970, The Almanac of American Politics was to have been a brief statistical study of a few congressional districts where antiwar candidates stood a chance of winning. By last summer it had grown to 1,030 pages, containing statistics and informal, readable political summaries of every state and congressional district in the union that had never been available before in one package...
Minuet. The frustration over Viet Nam ought to help such antiwar candidates as Democrat George McGovern and Republican Pete McCloskey. But McGovern backers have had difficulty getting local students to work hard for their man. "I think these kids are into not being radical now," explains Frances Bennotti, a McGovern worker manning a campus campaign table in Durham. Nor does the issue necessarily hurt Nixon. Dick Allison, a tram conductor at the Cannon Mountain ski area, lost a cousin in Viet Nam. He considers the war a tragic mistake, but defends the Administration's pace of withdrawal...
...build up Muskie." By focusing on Muskie, the Republicans give the Democratic front runner greater prominence; the Administration seems to be treating him as if he were already the nominee. Further, by making Muskie out to be the leading dove, the Republicans have strengthened his position with antiwar voters who might otherwise prefer George McGovern or John Lindsay...
WHAT SHOULD be clearest of all is that Nixon's role as peacemaker in China exists only insofar as he can improve the U.S. economic and political position by playing on Sino-Soviet tensions and by deflating antiwar opposition at home. It is as tragic as it is ironic that a student of John Foster Dulles' foreign policy should be the first American president to visit China in a generation. Already, in the administration's support of Pakistan over Bangladesh, the United States has paid some of the moral and material costs of Nixon's balance-of-power scheming...