Word: backlashers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...what is still a very loyal opposition. Some complain that he is abandoning Nasser's vision of Egypt as an Arab socialist community. Others charge that he has built up excessively high hopes based on what Kissinger's diplomacy may achieve, and is risking a bitter backlash. Even American diplomats have gently tried to warn him that U.S. aid may not be forthcoming in quite the amount he expects. Tacitly, Sadat concedes that he has taken a giant risk in staking so much on the U.S. "If there is no peace," he says, "then forget everything I have...
...impeachment vote at that point, Strauss says: "It would be bad politics to talk about impeachment when the House may be ready for a vote." Presumably, Strauss is concerned that open talk about impeachment by the opposition party would be considered in bad taste, and might create a sympathy backlash for Republican candidates...
Lewis said he fears that if Congress were to impeach Nixon within this year or the next, there would be a "backlash." He said that the same trauma which strikes the nation when a president dies in office would come with Nixon's impeachment...
...case against direct action went something like this: There are hundreds of pro-war congressmen who must be defeated. Many of them hold vulnerable seats and can be defeated with strong campaigns. All that demonstrating will do is create a backlash reaction in the electorate. The issue will change from the U.S.'s role in Southeast Asia to whether student demonstrators are threatening the fabric of American society. Faced with the prospect of defending sometimes violent demonstrators, many liberals will either defend them and go down to defeat, or swing to the right. The only way to bring...
...value that the demonstration might have will be totally negated by any show of violence or disruption. There is nothing wrong with creative posters and anti-Nixon chants, but violent disruptions could again cause a backlash. Gerald Ford should not be allowed to brand anti-Nixon demonstrators as crazy leftists or "extreme partisans" as he described them in a speech at Atlantic City, N.J. If congressmen and the American people get the sense that the impeachment drive is being spearheaded by some bizarre left wing sect, the cause will be severly weakened...