Word: dovishness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...over-all vote of 21,000 students, faculty, and administration members who were polled was less dovish than the Harvard vote, released last Thursday, in which 90 per cent favored de-escalation...
...Harvard students and Faculty members who organized the referendum said they were particularly surprised by the dovish stance of students at Emmanuel College a small Roman Catholic girl's school in Boston, where over 70 per cent said they favored de-escalation...
McCarthy's campaign is well-financed and it should become well-organized. Persons of all shades of dovish opinion finally have a figure to rally around. They have an opportunity and an obligation to work for him, and make their voices heard in a politically effective manner...
...those accustomed to Massachusetts politicians, the decision of this dovish David to challenge the presidential Goliath seems a strange one indeed. He lacks the jaunty grin of an Edward M. Kennedy; he does not pound the table with his first like a Francis X. Bellotti; and his throat does not issue the pious platitudes of a John A. Volpe...
...only meaningful justification for McCarthy's campaign is the longshot chance that he can 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...