Word: dissents
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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SUMMER FOCUS (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). "Dissent-or Treason?" examines the moral aspects of protest in the U.S., focusing on the current anti-Viet Nam war demonstrations. Excerpts from speeches by President Johnson and Secretary Rusk, comments from prominent hawks and doves, plus a review of protest in the U.S. by Historian Henry Steele Commager...
Left & Right, Right & Wrong Sir: Thanks for another concisely worded Essay-"The Right to Dissent & the Duty to Answer" [May 12]. By placing in historical perspective the issue of dissent on Viet Nam policy, the Essay generates light for both dissenters and defenders. For the left it inspires determination while calling for not quite so much arrogance. For the right it cautions against tendencies to suppress our most time-tempered means of guarding against national delusions of omnipotence, yet with the incisive reminder that even L.B.J.'s Establishment represents a policy come of age compared to former treatments...
...Dissent is like everything else in life: there's a right way and a wrong way to do things. And having a worthy goal is no excuse to go off half cocked...
...soldiers realize that dissent may be lengthening the war, or at least reducing any inclination the North Vietnamese might have to negotiate. But Congressmen Hebert and Rivers, and others who try to stifle dissent, are seeking to destroy one of the very freedoms we're defending. We'd rather the Carmichaels and Kings abuse these freedoms than have our Congressmen limit them and destroy them. Even a few kooks burning draft cards aren't as disheartening as a Congressman crying, "Let's forget the First Amendment...
...Cross and the Silver Star, Boddie can lay bombs or napalm within 30 meters of his own troops and take as much steel as the Viet Cong can dish out. Yet he is able to say of Stateside antiwar demonstrators: "I'm here to protect their right to dissent...