Word: conflicted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...thereby make it easier to rein in the supercharged economy with wage and price controls, silence critics and mobilize troops. But the State Department adheres to the objections it listed in 1965 to such a declaration-chiefly, that it would risk "enlarging the scope of the conflict" and lead to "expanded involvement" by Hanoi's Communist allies. As for the legality of fighting a major conflict without a formal declaration of war, the U.S. has done so in six of its eleven major wars...
Clifford said recently, "I cannot recall perhaps a more perilous time confronting this nation than confronts it today." Though Viet Nam is by no means wholly responsible, he believes that an unsatisfactory outcome of the conflict there could well lead to World War III. In any case, far more than Viet Nam will be at stake during Clark Clifford's tenure as Secretary of Defense. If he can help to reduce the disarray in NATO and other U.S. alliances, and to restore the amity that once existed between Capitol Hill and the White House, he will have done much...
...five declared wars: War of 1812, Mexican War, Spanish-American War, World Wars I and II. The six undeclared wars: the naval war with France (1798 to 1800), the First and Second Barbary Wars (1801-1805 and 1815), the Mexican-American conflict of 1914-1917, the Korean War and Viet...
Although much is made of the conservative-liberal split between the two, they have rarely been in conflict on basic principles. When Rockefeller worked for Eisenhower as Under Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare and later as his Special Assistant for Foreign Affairs, he occasionally found an ally in Nixon against more conservative elements in the Administration. Certainly Nixon is at home with the congressional wing of the party, oriented toward the Middle West and limit ed government, while Rockefeller is of the Eastern Establishment, prone to look first toward the executive branch. Yet if during the '60s Goldwater...
...Conflict between Avatar salesmen and the City of Cambridge broke out once again yesterday when eight Cambridge policemen picked up Brian Kelly '66 for selling the 20th issue of the magazine to a teenager in Harvard Square...