Word: condemnation
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Buttons for Lyndon. Hatfield's brand of Republicanism is somewhat unorthodox. Long considered a comer by party elders, he nominated Richard Nixon at the 1960 Republican Convention, and was the keynoter at the 1964 convention. At a convention that refused to condemn extremism, he vigorously denounced the John Birch Society in his keynote address. After the convention, he lent his name-and one of his key aides-to the Goldwater campaign. And when Lyndon Johnson came campaigning, Hatfield greeted him warmly and presented him with a basket of L.B.J. buttons. At the Governors' conference last July, Hatfield...
...Export. Some critics have faulted the U.S. for naively seeking to impose U.S.-style democracy on South Viet Nam. Conversely, others condemn Washington for supporting an undemocratic regime in Saigon. Both miss the essential point. Saigon may well suffer from instability, corruption and a feudal social system, but as Freedom House Chairman Leo Cherne has written, "Far from wanting to export these defects, the South Vietnamese ask only to be left in peace to overcome them. This is the real tragedy of Viet Nam-that history has denied it the chance to grow and evolve in peace...
...Concurred unanimously on "The Inadmissibility of Intervention in the Internal Affairs of States," an action that the Russians had hoped would condemn the U.S. for its stand in Viet Nam but which was broadened to include Communist subversion as well...
...from the 1964 Republican National Convention, many party chieftains have exorcised the bugaboo of "extremism." Yet when the party's nine-month-old coordinating committee met in Washington last week, moderate Republican Governors, led by Idaho's Bob Smylie, insisted that the leadership should collectively and specifically condemn the John Birch Society...
...Condemn Reprehensible Tactics...