Word: dissenters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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John Kennedy realized the danger of yes-men and tried to encourage dissent. Lyndon Johnson was a more jealous and insecure man. "I don't want loyalty," he once said, "I want loyalty. I want him to kiss my ass in Macy's window at high noon and tell me it smells like roses. I want his pecker in my pocket," He wanted more than loyalty "Servility" might be a better word. After Hubert Humphrey gave a speech which seemed to take some personal credit for the Administration's education policies, Johnson called in the White House correspondents and remarked...
...where intellectuals introduced drugs as the means to a meditative experience, where honored magazines are polluted with pornography, where ministers have forgotten that Jesus never interfered with Caesar's laws, where free love has unleashed an epidemic of venereal disease, where destructive protest has been honored as righteous dissent, where the killing of unborn babies is thought a small price to pay for the pleasure of sex, where the purpose of law is forgotten and the letter of the law is worshiped like a plastic god, where tradition's moral sense is spat upon-in such an atmosphere...
...papers that announced their choices last week, the Philadelphia Inquirer and Los Angeles Times came out for Nixon. McGovern, said the Times, is "weakest where Mr. Nixon is strongest-in the perception of the nation's place in the world." But the St. Louis Post-Dispatch expressed its dissent, saying that McGovern "offers a philosophy of decency and compassion directed toward healing wounds and drawing the nation together. Mr. Nixon's appeal is to less noble instincts...
According to Reitz, the issues the President is strongest on are the end of the draft, his Vietnam policy, and his stand on human rights. Reitz says that people who accuse Nixon of maliciously continuing the bombing in Vietnam, wrecking the economy, sowing racial discord and stifling student dissent are simply misinformed...
Mahoney has been traveling around the country in an effort, he claimed, to let people know about the length the U.S. government will go to suppress dissent in the countr