Word: antiwar
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...evidence of the growing disaffection of congressional hawks, Nixon aides sent copies of antiwar speeches by two Georgia Representatives to the President at the Western White House in San Clemente. Both Democrats John J. Flynt and Phil M. Landrum reversed their consistent support of the Administration on the war and voted against an extension of the draft (which nonetheless passed 293 to 99). Flynt told a hushed House: "My conscience will not let me vote to continue to conscript young Americans to fight a war which most Americans do not want and a war which the U.S. Government apparently lacks...
...three years ago. Nixon is committed to a policy of quitting the war, and he can increase troop withdrawals as political pressures rise within the U.S. He will announce more reductions of the Viet Nam garrison in April, which may draw some of the poison out of planned antiwar demonstrations this spring. He must, however, reckon with the fact that if he sets out to disarm his critics at home, the result may be to undermine the morale of the South Vietnamese and weaken Thieu before his test in South Viet Nam's presidential elections in October...
Although the UAG spokesman acknowledged that "probably a majority" of the students are opposed to the disruption, he said that it showed the Vietnam policy planners that there is a "live and kicking" antiwar movement on college campuses...
After a long and heated discussion, members of the Indochina Teach-In Committee, which sponsored an antiwar gathering February 26, produced a petition which represented, in the words of one member, "a synthesis of viewpoints...
...spokesman for UAG, an organization of radical graduate students and faculty members, agreed that the disruption had been a "tremendous success" in building antiwar sentiment...