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...have engendered. If there is a shortage of hospital beds and of nurses and of medical services, let us be sure that people understand that it is because this sector of the economy has been starved for years. And let us do something about that. Let us fight the backlash not by watching and on occasion deploring the onslaught on Adam Clayton Powell but by pressing for the next steps against bigotry and misunderstanding and segregated communities and schools and restricted housing. Let us meet the problems of administration in the poverty program by training administrators--and especially by pressing...
Cold Party. During his Senate campaign, Brooke responded to the exaggerated threat of white backlash by taking the unusual step?for him?of raising the racial issue. He condemned both Stokely Carmichael and Georgia's Lester Maddox as "extremists of black power and white power." Brooke swamped Chub Peabody by 1,213,473 to 744,761 votes and took the Senate seat occupied for 22 years by Brahmin Leverett Saltonstall...
...George, Democrat Robert McNair, taking the oath in South Carolina, another state with a history of bitter-end segregation and states'-rights resistance, was determined to follow the road to moderation. South Caro lina, said McNair, has "no time for obsession with either black power or white backlash. With the opportunities that are before us, this is not the time, and South Carolina is not the place, for those who are preoccupied with extremism or petty frustration...
...election results signify a reverse of L.BJ.-J.B.L., Johnson Backlash...
...liberal who deserted Senator Douglas in the election, I would like to make it clear that neither the so-called white backlash nor Senator Douglas' age played any part in my decision to support Charles Percy. My decision was based almost entirely on their stands on Viet Nam. Percy's position, while certainly not dovelike, was far less militant than Douglas'. I feel that Percy can better represent my thinking on this most vital issue of securing peace in Viet...