Word: bases
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dissent at home. Second, he talked through newsmen to the American public, pointing up the progress in the war and calling for patience. Third, he talked to South Viet Nam's newly installed leaders, demanding a more vigorous effort in both prosecuting the war and broadening the base of Saigon's government...
...there are two things that characterize America in war," he told the U.S. embassy staff in Saigon, "they are disagreement and valor." At the burgeoning base of Chu Lai, where he awarded medals to soldiers of the America Division, Humphrey reminded his audience that "nation-building is our business," and warned that "unless we win it here, America doesn't have another chance." In sessions with Thieu and Ky, he urged development of sound political parties and an end to the corruption and wrangling that has so often disrupted Vietnamese political life. To one and all, he passed along...
Smith, relaxing in an armchair and filling the room with the wild cherry aroma of his pipe tobacco, did not feel powerless after his defeat. His unsuccessful campaign created a potentially devastating base of support--a coalition among white workers, Negroes, and intellectuals. "We have created something to work from, whether it's me or somebody else who runs next time. My job is to get the working class, the Negro and the intellectual together and screw the middle class...
Many observers felt that Mayor Hayes, who finished ninth in 1965, was running poorly until he began his anti-hippie campaign. Since then, he has probably picked up enough votes in his North Cambridge base to edge ahead of his chief rival, Thomas W. Danehy...
...nominations for the "six worst man-made objects"-it was not such a daring list at that: Manhattan's Pan Am Building, Dali's Last Supper, the suburban builder's typical tacky house, some glass sculpture at Lincoln Center, a lamp with a violin as its base, and the faces on Mount Rushmore...