Word: dovishness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...President has proved himself. He has provided as much economic and military assistance to Israel as all the White House predecessors combined; in times of crisis he has stood up to the Soviet Union in the Middle East. McGovern is more of a mystery. At first he was too dovish: he wanted the Israelis to return just about all the territories they had conquered from the Arabs in the Six-Day War, and he urged the internationalization of Jerusalem. Under pressure, he abandoned these positions and even went so far as to promise to supply U.S. troops if Israel were...
...example, would risk the hostility of the nation's Jewish voters -and wealthy Jewish contributors-by even hinting that his affection for Israel was less than total. One of George McGovern's insistent, and so far less than persuasive campaign themes, has been his distinguishing between his dovish stand on Viet Nam and his relatively hawkish position in support of Israel...
...stop an end-the-war amendment from being tacked on to the foreign military aid bill. Their judgment seemed to be upheld when Majority Leader Mike Mansfield's amendment calling for U.S. troop withdrawal from Viet Nam by October was voted down 49-44. Then an even more dovish amendment was offered by Republican Senator John Sherman Cooper. It authorized further funds for Indochina only for the purpose of withdrawing all American troops in four months. At best, the amendment would have commanded 40 votes...
...long way from redeeming his promise that the war "will not be an issue in the campaign." But it is also true that he has been able to mine your ports and bomb your bridges with astonishing political impunity. You may have noted that Mike Mansfield, the dovish majority leader of the Senate, last week promised to suspend action on antiwar bills so as not to interfere with Nixon's plans. If he is reelected, Nixon may be under even less effective pressure to end the violence than...
...into the air, their targets known only to them as a set of map coordinates, they kill by proxy for Nixon and Kissinger, and not for us or for the people who wrote the letters to Mayor Ackermann. We, along with the letter writers and the majority of dovish Americans, share with the people of Indochina the same powerless relationship to the American government. In our protests we have tried to make this clear. We find the notion of lobbying our supposed representatives in Washington laughable, for they are almost as powerless as we: the Gulf of Tonkin resolution--passed...