Word: dovishness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...pressure the Soviets, Kennedy and his men were confused and very willing to make several concessions to Khrushchev. Scared by the prospect that Khrushchev would escalate any conflict, the White House was afraid that any move against the Soviets would touch off a nuclear holocaust. Eventually, a dovish Kennedy pledged never to invade Cuba and implicitly agreed to Khrushchev's demand that American nuclear missiles in Turkey be removed in exchange for a withdrawal of Soviet nuclear weapons from Cuba. The transcripts show that the United States did not "win" the Cuban Missile Crisis, but that Kennedy gave...
Iowans are far more dovish on defense and foreign policy. Asked if military appropriations should be increased, decreased or kept the same, Republicans nationally divide 30% for higher spending, 23% for less and 45% for no change. But in Iowa, only 19% of Republicans favor more defense, and 36% want less. Democrats nationwide split roughly by thirds on the same question; in Iowa, half the Democrats support a cut in Pentagon spending, and only 15% prefer an increase. Asked if they favor or oppose U.S. aid to the contras in Nicaragua, Republicans nationally support the program, 54% to 32%; Iowa...
...remains, to be sure, a certain implausibility about Simon as the eventual nominee. Image is part of the problem; unfashionable bow ties and horn-rims can captivate a limited number of anti-chic contrarians, but they can make a candidate seem quirky to others. So is ideology; Simon's dovish rhetoric seems unlikely to play well in the South, even though Iowa voters respond to applause lines like "I think the choice is the arms race or the human race." Simon may confound liberal orthodoxy by his support of a balanced-budget amendment, but the centerpiece of his domestic agenda...
...rarely fails to mention during his frequent forays through the region. When Gore is campaigning in Arkansas and Texas, his accent changes subtly as "my" becomes "mah" and "narrow" becomes "narrah." He also proclaims himself a "raging moderate," a distinction he has increasingly emphasized by challenging his opponents' dovish stands on defense and foreign policy...
Hart began his rehabilitation road show the next evening in Philadelphia with a densely analytical address on U.S.-Soviet relations. Although the liberal audience was politely receptive, his delivery was flat, and his dovish themes echoed recent Democratic debates...