Word: dissents
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...blast-off for man's second moon landing, of yet another massive outpouring of sentiment over Viet Nam. TIME deals with them both. Yet as the days went by, it became increasingly clear that the biggest, most intriguing news was the Nixon Administration's mounting counteroffensive against dissent in the U.S. The speech attacking the television networks by Vice President Spiro T. Agnew, whom TIME discussed in last week's cover story, was only one broadside in a campaign directed from the White House and involving many members of the President's official family...
...demonstrate to Hanoi that the protesters do not speak for the American public, and so gain time and leverage for his plan for a gradual U.S. disengagement from Viet Nam. In the process, the Administration is splitting conservatives from liberals, drawing a line between dissenters and Americans who are sick of dissent-more so than of the war itself...
This is not the first time Americans have seen their President respond to dissent by ignoring the issues and seeking to discredit dissenters themselves. But the Nixon scenario has a new and dangerous twist. By initiating unnecessary and arbitrary "safety" measures, the Administration has generated a threat of violence where none had existed before...
President Nixon has met the voice of dissent with a vicious campaign of threat and insinuation. Americans should not permit his twists and turns to blunt the edge of their anger...
...group called "the Boston Eight" issued a statement claiming responsibility for "this offense to good taste, and to law and order... We are eight Americans who have exhausted 'legitimate dissent' ... But we insist on moral and non-violent disruption," the statement said. It added that, "at an opportune time," the group would identify itself publicly...