Word: democratization
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Initiated by Idaho Democrat Frank Church and signed by 14 Democrats and two Republicans,* the statement warned that with the conflict entering a "critical juncture, it would be tragic indeed if there were any misconception in Hanoi about the realities of the political situation in the U.S." Entitled "A Plea for Realism," the document noted that "there are no doubt many citizens of the U.S. who share our expressed misgivings about the growing American involvement in Viet Nam. But there are many more who either give their full endorsement to our Government's policy in Viet...
...that 59% want to intensify it. Third, the Senators were anxious to shore up their own political flanks. In Idaho, Church is worried that he may confront a recall move sponsored by members of the John Birch Society. In Oregon, a recent poll indicates that Democrat Robert Duncan, an all-out advocate of the war who lost narrowly to Mark Hatfield in last year's Senate race, enjoys a 2-to-1 edge over Morse. Democrats Clark, Fulbright, McGovern and Nelson also are in trouble in their respective states because of their outspoken misgivings about Viet...
After being picked by President Johnson for the No. 2 post in the Agency for International Development, Rutherford ("Rud") Poats had to wait six months for Senate confirmation of his appointment. The opposition to Poats was led by Indiana Democrat Birch Bayh, whose objections increasingly seemed to be motivated as much by vindictiveness as by vigilance. Last week his colleagues bypassed Bayh and voted down a motion that would have recommitted Poats's nomination to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. The Senate then confirmed...
Intemperate Reaction. In voicing such criticism, and in repeating it during a two-day hearing held in Manhattan by Pennsylvania Democrat Joseph Clark's Senate poverty subcommittee, Kennedy was only echoing objections that have been raised frequently in recent years. Even so, as New York's Republican Senator Jacob Javits, another member of Clark's subcommittee, pointed out, such scattershot attacks are bound to hearten those who want to gut the whole antipoverty program...
...refusal to compromise with "the apocalyptic insanity" of the Administration is not the stuff of which politicians are made. And Vaughn, a registered Democrat, knows it. "Look, I was trained to be an actor. I'm not a professional protester. I have no inclination to public life. I want to stop the war. Then I want not to be heard from again. I will rue the day I'm ever involved in another cause--because it depletes me emotionally and intellectually every...