Word: counterattack
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Reagan's target was Drew Pearson; his strategy, counterattack. "He's lying," said the Governor of California. "Pearson shouldn't be using a typewriter. He's better with a pencil on outbuilding walls." How to explain Pearson's attack...
...Barricades. Continuing the counterattack that he mounted earlier in the month, Lyndon Johnson sent several members of his official family to the barricades with speeches criticizing his critics. On an educational TV show, Vice President Hubert Humphrey declared that the U.S. does not seek "to make China our enemy," but "to contain the militant instincts or aggressive patterns of Communist China's conduct." Both the second-and third-ranking men in the State Department defended the Administration's policies-Under Secretary Nicholas Katzenbach in a speech at Connecticut's Fairfield University and Under Secretary for Political Affairs...
...bothered. New York's Senator Jacob Javits called on President Johnson to deliver an "extraordinary State of the Union message" to resolve American doubts and dissent over the war. But the President seems to prefer a different tactic. He is deploying his most influential aides in a verbal counterattack...
...Shao-chi, symbol of all the revolution is attacking, had at last been pulled down. But last week, amid reports of continuing clashes between groups of Red Guards vying for power, Radio Peking broadcast an appeal to the Peoples' Liberation Army to stand ready "to smash the counterattack" of the President and his followers. It is possible that Mao welcomes the skirmishes abroad to lessen his followers' frustrations at failing to win a decisive battle in the Cultural Revolution...
...world. Perhaps even more extraordinary are the changes in the nature of Communism itself that took place during that half-century. The vision of the great socialist Utopia collapsed first under bloody totalitarianism, was eroded further by a crude Russian imperialism, and is reeling today before the counterattack of nationalist sentiment and pragmatic economics...