Word: civilizations
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...former oil-company geologist who handled scheduling for the candidate, will become secretary to the Cabinet. Harry Flemming, 28, who was Nixon-Agnew co-chairman in Virginia and is now helping to recruit sub-Cabinet officials, will become a special assistant for personnel and liaison man to the Civil Service Commission. Flemming owns four weekly newspapers in Northern Virginia and is vice president of a Washington electronics company. His father, Arthur Flemming, was Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare under Dwight Eisenhower...
...earlier presidential task, force, the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders, concluded that the U.S. was increasingly becoming two nations, one white and the other black. Douglas also sees a growing bifurcation, but it is primarily an economic rather than a racial one. There is, he says, "a sickness in American society that is dividing the nation into two classes, the poor and the not-poor. The division is especially sharp between the whites and the blacks. It may tear our country to pieces." To prevent this from happening, Richard Nixon has promised to create a Council on Urban Affairs...
Thomas' pacifism wavered during the Spanish Civil War, when he sympathized with the loyalist opposition to Franco. But it led him to speak against the U.S. intervention in World War II before isolationist America First audiences, because he feared that entry into the war would bring about fascism at home. Later, however, he concluded that an Axis triumph would condemn the world to the "lowest circle of hell," and gave "critical support" to the war. But when the U.S. used the atomic bomb against Japan, he cried out in protest...
...Left and New. Yet he argued that war critics had a duty to offer realistic suggestions about how the U.S. might extricate itself from Viet Nam. As elder statesman of the Old Left, he viewed the New Left with some mistrust. Said Thomas: "I by no means denounce all civil disobedience, but some of the forms of it advocated and practiced by some members of the New Left seem to me to do more harm than good to the cause of peace...
...weak heart. Not long before his death, he reflected: "I suppose it is an achievement to live to my age and feel that one has kept the faith, or tried to. To have had a part in some of the things that have been accomplished in the field of civil liberties, in the field of better race relations, and the rest of it-that's the kind of achievement that I have to my credit...