Word: disarmers
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...able to take the pounding of the campaign? He has managed to control himself in the face of hostile questioning, but barely. He does not come off as self-righteous, as Jimmy Carter sometimes did. But he has not shown the capacity of his model, John F. Kennedy, to disarm critics with self-deprecation. J.F.K., for instance, defused the issue of his family's heavy spending in the 1960 election by telling his audience that he had received a wire from his father: "Dear Jack, Don't buy one more vote than necessary. I'll be damned...
...about the world. However, I feel that the greatest and most dangerous illusion many Americans readily accept is that the United States and the Soviet Union are both motivated by morally equivalent aims in pursuing the arms race and that if only we would take the first step to disarm or institute a nuclear freeze, the Soviets would do likewise. It is precisely this type of wishful thinking that has spawned the so-called peace movements in the United States and Western Europe...
...King. FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, for decades the lord of his own almost independent principality within the American Government, said that King was associating with Communists. Kennedy and his brother Bobby, then Attorney General, allowed the wiretaps of King 1) to clear King's name and thus disarm Hoover, 2) to see for themselves whether Hoover's suspicions were correct, or 3) both. They did not, however, authorize the bugging that amounted to a much broader invasion of King's privacy...
...going beyond simply registering that dissatisfaction. Six leading candidates for the Democratic nomination for president have endorsed a nuclear freeze, but the Nuclear Free Cambridge proposal gives up hope for national change. Supporters are giving up on arms control agreements. They are saying that the United States should unilaterally disarm. They are unrealistically hoping that they can wish nuclear weapons away, and that the problem will take care of itself...
...Disarm, cried a cleric called Kent...