Word: doves
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...return, President George Meany made no fewer than three first-day orations staunchly supporting L.B.J.'s conduct of the Viet Nam war. Calling labor "neither hawk nor dove nor chick en," Meany declared: "We recognize the fact that our country has a commitment, a job to do. We support the President of the United States." Paul Hall of the Seafarers Union sailed headon into J. William Fulbright. "If the Senator from Arkansas," Hall growled, "would do just 10% for the Arkansas Negro as he has said or bled for the Viet Cong, not only would Arkansas be a hell...
Though the late Adlai E. Stevenson has also been posthumously characterized by antiwar dissenters as an ardent dove on Viet Nam and a pooh-pooher of the theory that China may one day endanger the U.S., the fact is that he shared J.F.K.'s views to a striking extent. In a memorandum written in November 1964, eight months before his death, Stevenson warned: "The principal threat to world peace and Western security in the foreseeable future will almost certainly be Communist China." As China's nuclear-supported military strength and prestige grew, he predicted, "it will use that...
...bombing pause in the winter of 1965-66, which McNamara advocated over the President's misgivings. Yet neither the calculated gamble of the bombing pause -an attempt to induce negotiations with Hanoi-nor his increasingly obvious reservations about the air war against North Viet Nam made McNamara a dove. On the contrary, he was involved in every major U.S. move in Asia, and his voice-still being heard in the White House last week-was often the decisive one. Nonetheless, the doves who once twittered about "McNamara's war" came to look on him as their man because...
...good showing by McCarthy may convince Senator Robert F. Kennedy (D-N.Y.) and other Democrats in private disagreement with the President that an alternative to Johnson does exist. It may cause President Johnson to moderate his Vietnam policies. It may convince the Republicans that by nominating a dove they will attract a large and well-organized number of Democrats. Finally, the campaign promises to have a good effect on the country by bringing back into the political system those persons whose frustrations over the war have led them to take actions outside our democratic structure...
Gatto and Zimmerman moved the ball to the 13 where rarely-used fullback junior Ken O'Connell dove for the first down. Hornblower ground for six yards on two carries and then Zimmerman added to his Harvard career touchdown passes record by hitting Lord on a quick look...