Word: doves
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Returning to Michigan aboard his chartered plane-appropriately, a de Havilland Dove-the Governor went straight to the William Beaumont Hospital in Royal Oak to pick up his wife Lenore, who had suffered a broken arm and dislocated shoulder two days earlier when she slipped in the shower at the Romneys' Bloomfield Hills home. For reasons that go beyond personal affection, Romney's aides are hoping she mends swiftly. Lenore is a considerable asset on the stump, provides a warmly feminine counterpoint to her husband's granite-jawed, combative style, and helps calm him when the going...
About Viet Nam Reischauer is far from the conventional dove. He believes that getting involved there was a mistake, chiefly because the U.S. can not from the outside provide the leadership, the will and the social reforms that Vietnamese society itself has failed to supply. He also believes that if Viet Nam had gone Communist in the early '50s, it would not have mattered much to U.S. interests. At present he favors cessation of the bombing but a continued, strong military buildup behind a barrier along the 17th parallel, to persuade the Viet Cong that they cannot...
...deny Johnson the nomination. Other possibilities have been mentioned. A successful primary bid might make the Party's war platform more dovish. But President Johnson has ignored the platform before; he can certainly do so again. A large vote for McCarthy might influence Republicans to nominate a dove. But Republican nominating conventions have shown no great disposition for bringing political realities into their decisions in the past. There is no reason to think they will...
Introduced by Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman J. William Fulbright, the Senate's foremost dove, and co-sponsored by Georgia's Richard Russell, its most powerful hawk, the measure had wide backing, reflecting the upper body's atavistic yearning for a role it thinks it once had. If passed, the resolution would have been no more binding on the President than one asking Americans to be kind to dogs. It would nonetheless have been a rebuke to him, and this consideration swayed some members of the Fulbright committee last week...
Questions on the referendum will cover all possible opinions on the war from extreme hawk to extreme dove...