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Today, all seem caught up in mutual recriminations-Negro and white, rich and poor, conservative and liberal, hawk and dove, labor and management, North and South, young...
What will the City Council do with the CNCV resolution? All the Council's own resolutions on Vietnam have been hawkish. Yet, "there is a possibility," McCarthy said Friday, "that the Council will adopt this [dove] statement ... anything can happen ... who knows?" That would be one sure way to keep the question off the ballot...
...weeks ago, New Jersey's Clifford Case and Kentucky's Thruston Morton pulled the lanyards on Lyndon. Last week Kentucky's John Sherman Cooper renewed his demand for an "unconditional cessation" of U.S. bombing against the North; Massachusetts' Edward Brooke, a dove turned mild hawk, seemed ready to change feathers again with a call for a bombing pause; and Illinois' Charles Percy, who has frequently voiced discontent over Viet Nam before, got 22 colleagues to cosponsor a resolution asking the President to insist Asia's non-Communist nations share more of the fighting with...
...verbal niceties, the debate was bitter and sarcastic, and widened even further the gulf between supporters and critics of the Administration's Viet Nam policies. Unfortunately, it also overshadowed an effective speech by Kuchel about his recent visit to Viet Nam. The Californian, who considers himself an "armed dove," left as a supporter of Johnson's policies, and returned even more firmly convinced that they are correct. "Other than Red China, North Korea and North Viet Nam," he said, "every country over there hopes to God we don't turn around and leave." Speaking after Missouri Democrat...
...J.F.K. meeting," as the conference at the Airport is known by those who were close to it, was perhaps one of the most significant intellectual confrontations known to have taken place between the Administration and its "dove" critics. Because of its previous highly secret nature, participants were later reluctant to talk about it, but one said a few weeks ago, preferring to remain anonymous, "the President's stand was defeated in an honest intellectual debate...