Word: dovishness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Moore's bestseller. To Producer, Co-Director and Star John Wayne, the war is primer-simple. There's them and there's us. Us are the Green Beret crack troops led by Wayne with a chestful of fruit salad and a no-nonsense approach to the dovish American press, personified by David Janssen. During the beating of a V.C., Reporter Janssen protests, "There's such a thing as due process." "Out here," sneers Wayne, "due process is a bullet." Built on the primitive lines of a standard western, Berets even has the South Vietnamese talking like...
...nothing happened. Christmas, exams, and a faltering candidate stopped the McCarthy movement in its tracks. McCarthy appeared to most "realistic" Harvard politicos as just another "dovish-fringe candidate without any political weight" as one "realist...
Kennedy should have been more prudent. Oregon is dovish, and McCarthy, as the first antiwar candidate in the race, was much better known there than in Indiana and Nebraska, where recognition was a major problem. Oregon is also an overwhelmingly white, middle-class state with none of the substantial minority blocs that Kennedy has come to count on for support. For once, McCarthy forces out-organized and even outspent Kennedy's camp, but it was Kennedy who conveyed the giant's presence and McCarthy the shepherd...
...Dovish Crows. There is speculation that the North Vietnamese will not begin bargaining seriously until November, in hopes of dealing with a more dovish U.S. President. Hanoi denies such talk. "To us," said a North Vietnamese diplomat in Paris, expanding the ornithology, "all crows are black...
...around him will certainly try to allay Gorton's fears. They feel that Australia's 19th Prime Minister, a comparative novice in world affairs, may have read too much significance into U.S. election-year oratory-notably Bobby Kennedy's and Eugene McCarthy's dovish stand against further Asian involvement. Still, Gorton intends to test the candidates' attitudes for himself; before he returns home, he expects to have private talks with all the U.S. presidential aspirants...