Word: dissenters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...talk of a new stifling of dissent, the unsilent minority still seems fairly aggressive. Last week a group called 1970 Senators for Peace and New Priorities published a full-page ad in the New York Times depicting the President, the Vice President, the Attorney General, the Secretary of Defense, and South Carolina's Senator Strom Thurmond marching along in their undershorts, presumably leading the country toward the abyss...
...dissent, Beryl Sprinkel argues that the leading indicators "have never been any weaker in modern times," judging by the percentage that are going down v. the percentage still rising. He forecasts a recession at least as severe...
More significant than the repeal of the Cold War Resolutions is the breakup of the "bipartisan" coalition which has governed American foreign policy since World War II. Dissent on the left has either allowed or forced liberal Senators to split with the coalition. In former days, the Mathias resolution would have seemed treasonable. Congress feared to speak openly with the President because to do so would jeopardize "major national interests" or "let the troops down." Today Senators can even imply, if not boldly assert, that the President has usurped the Constitution...
...Charles D. Henderson, a Republican state assemblyman, helped to draft a law compelling laggard college authorities to maintain order and denounced S.D.S. as "Students for Demolishing Society." Last week his prologue to the report sounded a far calmer note. "While few may want to admit it," he wrote, "the dissent of youth may have done more for higher education than any legislative body, offices of education or groups of educators simply because public attention has been focused on a burgeoning sick system and explosive societal ills...
...McCarthy's followers must now wonder whether they did not fall in naively behind a brooding circuit rider whose attention was fixed all along on some interior stage. McCarthy carried the flag for a considerable popular uprising. Yet his net effect, in retrospect, was to tame and domesticate dissent-to lead it to the Chicago Stock Yards. It belatedly erupted on Mayor Daley's streets, but soon afterward McCarthy vanished...