Word: dissents
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Dissent-its nature, its acceptance, and what to do about it-was the issue of the week...
Said Oregon's Democratic Senator Wayne Morse: "There has obviously been let loose in this country flag-waving propaganda designed to silence dissent...
Said University of Chicago Historian Daniel Boorstin: "Dissent is now in the hands of men who cannot bear to be embraced by authority, who are at their unhappiest when their ideas, as in the case of civil rights, are accepted by the authority they have railed against...
Ambivalent Attitude. Lyndon Johnson, the man around whom much of the talk swirled, seemed ambivalent in his own attitudes. At times, he has instinctively defended a free exchange of views, at others deplored the fact that Hanoi may misjudge dissent as proof of a divided people. For the most part, however, his public posture has been to acknowledge his critics' right to disagree-and his own right to disagree right back (see ESSAY...
Thus, in a speech last week to White House Fellows, the President lauded their generation for its "questioning, critical spirit, skeptical of promises and rather impatient with results." He reminded them that they enjoyed "enormous freedom-freedom of inquiry, freedom of expression-yes, freedom of dissent." And that freedom, he said, "can never harm us if we remember that it is a two-way street...