Word: dovishness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Charlie Whipple set theGlobe'sfirm but moderate dovish position last May with a series of six page-long editorials criticizing American involvement step-by-step. (A reprint of the series has gone through three printings and has sold 20,000 copies.) Silnce then theGlobestaff has become increasingly dovish. Whipple is still wary of immediate withdrawal, but adds that "conceivably it might come to that under some conditions...
...POPULAR, powerful local transfers his allegiance to Kennedy, he is likely to carry his district with him, even if it is not a dovish district. The Eighth Congressional District in Queens Country is a perfect example. Queens, the eastern-most borough of New York City, is one of the few downstate counties which can be called a Johnson strong point. It has few of the Negroes and Puerto Ricans who tend to be Kennedy supporters, and Frank O'Connor--who is running LBJ's statewide campaign--is a favorite with the hometown voters. While Johnson is heavily favored to sweep...
...Johnson Administration, of course, is unwilling even to consult dovish Senators before it makes decisions on the war. Last week Fulbright had to threaten a delay of the foreign aid authorization to compel Secretary of State Dean Rusk to testify, but Gore would rather not use that sort of pressure. He is confident that the complexity of world problems and the force of public opinion will lead future Administrations to seek the Senate's advice, if only to share the blame for their policies...
...restiveness and frustration tempered by a cautious disposition to wait and see. A new sympathy for President Johnson's burdens was widely evident. Concerning the war, as Connecticut Representative Donald J. Irwin observed after visiting his Fourth Congressional District, "it seems that the doves have become more dovish and the hawks have become more hawkish in the last few weeks." Adds Irwin, a supporter of current U.S. policy: "I've found very little voter sentiment in favor of pulling out of Viet...
...papers counseled anything like immediate disengagement or pulling out. The time of a possible setback, it was generally assumed, is not the time to back down. While admitting that the attacks may have been a "humbling experience" for the U.S., the somewhat dovish Chicago Daily News declared that they also bore a "message" that should not be missed in the "shock over the sight of blood." The "image of the enemy" said the News, "has altered from that of one stubborn but perhaps amenable to negotiation to that of one arrogantly confident he can smash the American will to fight...