Word: doves
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...trade deficit with Japan is a permanent condition and cannot be eliminated through pressure to open up Japanese markets or short-term investments in domestic competitiveness? The Democrats -- aside from Brown, who rarely mentions Japan in his different- drummer campaign -- fit on a neat grid from hawk to dove in their strategies for meeting the Japanese challenge...
Tsongas the Dove: his free-trade philosophy is buttressed by a subtle grasp of the Japanese psyche. "We need to build better products and compete better," he explains. "Then we'll be in a position to negotiate. Now we're sitting across the table from people who look at us with disdain." Threats are not his style, but he points out that what the Japanese "fear most is a U.S. consumer backlash...
...this application another chapter in the ever-imploding Kennedy mythology. No matter how many religious allusions Oliver Stone can cram into three hours of religious illusions, John Kennedy was not Jesus Christ--although both did have powerful daddies. JFK was painfully slow on civil rights. He was no Vietnam dove. And for what it's worth, his principal trashed "Jack's lack of intellectual drive" on his application to Harvard...
This is not the stuff out of which one easily makes a heroic dove, but Stone, relying on the hagiography that still surrounds the martyred President, blithely does it anyway. All we ever see of the Kennedy Administration are countless agonizing reruns of the fateful motorcade in Dallas, Kennedy's excellent speech at the American University and some of Stone's faux documentaire black-and-white footage of nasty military-industrial types cursing over a note from Bundy that threatens their jobs. (Bundy has said that "I don't think we know what he would have done...
Certainly, such figures as Dean Rusk, Bundy, Robert Kennedy '48, and George Ball (a dove who fought Kennedy's escalation) find nothing convincing or even particularly significant in that December 1963 decision--upon which JFK's conspiracy theory rests...