Word: campaigns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ghettos decay and the war in Viet Nam worsens, our President comes over here to see Harold Wilson and De Gaulle. I thought the Republican plan was to pull back from world affairs until America's problems at home and in Viet Nam were solved. During the campaign, Nixon said: "If elected, I will go to Viet Nam." It seems to me that he is going the long way to get there. Why is he still campaigning in Europe...
...Communist offensive of spring 1969 in Viet Nam is the first sudden test thrust upon it from abroad without lead time for exhaustive reflection. If the Nixon Administration can meet this challenge and go on to find the honorable end to the war that Nixon promised in his campaign, there will be hope that finally the U.S. can fully devote its great energies to resolving its domestic crises. If Nixon fails, the U.S. may well sink back into the swamp of suspicion and dissension in which his predecessor left...
...Adds another aide: "You might even say he's more human." His sense of humor has not suffered, as he showed when John Ehrlichman related to him a conversation with Charles de Gaulle in Paris. The French President was fascinated by Ehrlichman's intricate duties as chief campaign advance man in 1968: organizing the ballyhoo, the bands, the balloons, the crowds. "By the way," Ehrlichman told Nixon, "I signed up for three months in 1972 to handle De Gaulle's campaign." "But," said Nixon, "haven't we got something...
...presidential election might have served to bring the issue into focus earlier, but it failed to do so. It was the Johnson Administration that had started Sentinel, and Vice President Hubert Humphrey chose not to campaign against it then (he is now a vocal opponent). For his part, Nixon was warning against a possible "security gap" vis-à-vis the Soviet Union and thus encouraging the ABM's backers. A new Administration and a new Congress offered...
...first leaflet and poster campaign will begin this week. Besides undergraduates, the coalition hopes to attract the support of students at the Business, Medical, Law, and graduate schools. For those who are interested a meeting will be held at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, March 18, at a location to be announced...