Word: coonskin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Coonskin Caps...
...given to revolts." While militant protests will not disappear tomorrow-"it is more likely that there will be a long-drawn-out chorus of whimpers"-Kerr believes that political activism on campus may eventually take on a more peaceable form. "The sit-in," he concludes, "will gradually join the coonskin coat as an interesting symbol of a student age retreating into history...
...America has spent six years consuming lives and dollars in Vietnam, but no one is quite sure why we're still there. Goldberg says we are waiting to negotiate. Rusk would like to contain Chinese expansionism and reaffirm the SEATO treaty. Johnson wants to bring back "the coonskin on the wall...
...left. At the Officers' Club, Westmoreland had assembled his combat commanders. There the President said: "General Westmoreland told me that you were the best Army ever. If this is the best Army, you are the best leaders. I thank you. I salute you. Come home with that coonskin on the wall...
...Senate in 1948, tangled with Memphis Boss Edward H. Crump, who labeled Kefauver a "pet coon." Kefauver laboriously replied, "I may be a pet coon, but I'll never be Mr. Crump's pet coon." At his next campaign appearance he clapped a coonskin cap on his head, pointed to the tail and said, "A coon may have rings around his tail, but this coon will never have a ring through his nose." He beat the Crump machine, and more important than the ridiculous cap was Kefauver's decision to shake at least 500 hands...