Word: dovishness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Macalester College in St. Paul is no Berkeley, but a handful of radicals felt that they had to protest something on Earth Day. They picked a dovish political science professor, Hubert Humphrey. After listening to a bombardment of obscenities from 50 antiwar protesters, H.H.H. objected to the language, suggested that their tongues needed a bath in Lifebuoy. Pacified, the pacifists wound up touring the Humphrey house and inspecting his memorabilia...
...making its legislation effective immediately, instead of waiting the usual 90 days before becoming law. Governor Sargent thus managed to create two impressions in his act of signing the Shea Bill. His expressed doubts and reservations will mollify conservative elements in the state who sec the bill as a dovish challenge to the Nixon Administration. And his act of signing the bill and speeding its effectiveness should make his reelection campaign more attractive to liberal Republicans and to Democrats. Without definite action in support of the bill. Sargent would have lost anti-war voters to O'Donnell or Mayor White...
Sargent's counterbalance to this dovish image, his speech stressing the problems with the bill, should keep him in favor with the state and national Republican parties. After all, the Republicans want to maintain power in the Northeast amidst the liberal challenge, and presumably will support Sargent's reelection campaign this year. Sargent emerged from the nationally covered signing ceremony looking like a dutiful, and moderate, public servant-undoubtedly the sort of image the governor hopes to maintain in the months before election...
...Drinan, dean of the Boston College Law School; Harrison Chandler Stevens, who ran as an Independent against Philbin in 1968 and enjoyed the support of many college volunteers; and John F. Kerry, who favors immediate withdrawal, and was the first Vietnam veteran to run for Congress with a dovish platform...
...Senate Foreign Relations Committee reinforces such doubts and suggests that unduly sanguine analyses from the field may once again be misleading the nation. The document was prepared by James G. Lowenstcin and Richard M. Moose, both former foreign service officers who are considered moderates of a mildly dovish persuasion. They visited Viet Nam for eleven days in December. They warn that the yardsticks used to measure progress in Viet Nam consist of "far more ambiguous, confusing and contradictory evidence than pronouncements from Washington and Saigon indicate." Adds the report: "A visitor to Viet Nam can easily find evidence to support...