Word: controled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Heynes also faced pressure from the state legislature which would like to take control of the State university system from the regents. Though Heynes is barred by the present constitution from interfering with the universities, a new constitution is in the planning stages...
...public outery in the wake of the present Berkeley crisis may be large enough to permit the legislators to delegate more control over the universities to themselves through the new constitution...
...Hubert Humphrey, who has emphatically stated that the United States has enough nuclear weapons. Humphrey's problem is that he seems willing to let the Russians catch up with, or possibly overtake, the United States. Such a position tends to worry most voters. And Nixon's concern about arms-control talks--that they should be negotiated "from strength and never from weakness"--seems more prudent than Humphrey's enthusiastic endorsement of arms negotiations...
While the Democratic platform pledged a "balanced defense" and a "vigorous research and development effort," its emphasis was on the need to "recognize that vigilance calls for the twin discipline of defense and arms control." The GOP's call "to restore superiority" is more likely to impress Americans wearied by the long war in Vietnam...
...Republican position also capitalizes on voters' vague suspicion that McNamara, who clearly had responsibility for nuclear planning, too often disregarded the advice his Joint Chiefs gave him. A Republican Secretary of Defense would probably be forced to adopt the same management techniques McNamara used to keep the Pentagon under control, but Nixon's rhetoric reassures uneasy voters...