Word: dovishness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...independence, even when many of them disagreed with his passionate criticism of the war. But over the years, his army of political enemies increased. Republicans never quite forgave him for abandoning the G.O.P. in 1952, and later becoming a Democrat. Two years ago, he reversed field by supporting dovish Republican Mark Hatfield for the Senate, thus embittering thousands of Oregon Democrats...
...Democratic presidential ticket sweep of the state helped dovish congressman Peter N. Kyros win handily over Republican challenger Horace A. Hildrath. Both candidates favored a bombing halt but Hildrath conditioned it. In the second district Democratic incumbent William D. Hathaway appeared to have won a tight race with State Representative Elden H. Shute. Shute's main charge was against Hathaway's "ultra liberal record...
Nixon won, but George McGovern successfuly bucked the Nixon breadbasket tide to gain re-election to the Senate. McGovern, the dovish Presidential Candidate in Chicago, was thought to be in trouble in his conservative homeland. By waging a hard campaign stressing his individualism ("courageous prairie statesman") and his seniority, he made up the difference to win with 54 per cent of the vote over 67-year-old Archie Gubbrud. Republican Frank Farrar won election to the governorship on Nixon's coattails...
...Francisco Examiner, may return to the Republican fold. John Knight's seven newspapers, including the Detroit Free Press, the Miami Herald and the Charlotte Observer, have not yet endorsed a candidate, but it seems likely that they will support Nixon, even though they have been rather dovish on the war. Knight disclosed his personal feelings in a recent column: "Somehow we preferred the old Hubert - dedicated, faithful and true-to the newly contrived candidate who now wears a coat of many colors...
...Hatfield article is a thinly-veiled attack on Richard Nixon's failure to move to the left of the Administration on Vietnam. Hatfield rather unexpectedly endorsed Nixon prior to the Republican Convention, provoking speculation that Nixon was moving toward a dovish position on the war. Whether Hatfield himself believed this is unclear, but any hopes he may have had were disspelled at Miami Beach, where Nixon aides tried to modify the dovish tone of his seconding speech for Nixon...