Word: dovishness
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...aides sought to win acceptance of a moderate plank, along the lines of one carpentered by Theodore Sorensen, former speechwriter for President John F. Kennedy. The effort failed, ironically, when two other former Kennedy men, representing the McCarthy and McGovern camps, forced Sorensen to agree to a more dovish statement than Hum phrey was likely to approve. During a daylong hassle, Sorensen clashed repeatedly with McCarthy Speechwriter Richard Goodwin and Pierre Salinger, a McGovern aide. The result was a plank incorporating many ideas set forth by Ted Kennedy in the speech he gave last week at Worcester, Mass. It demands...
...Gallup sent his hopes soaring, a notable defection from liberal Republican ranks brought them back to earth. To the astonishment of Rocky-among others-Oregon's dovish Senator Mark Hatfield announced his endorsement of Nixon, who has plainly labeled himself a hawk on Viet Nam. After a long talk with the former Vice President in Manhattan, Hatfield emerged to declare that he would "actively seek support" for Nixon as a man who could "successfully resolve the Viet Nam conflict." Rockefeller minced no words when he heard of the turnabout. "It means that Mark Hatfield has betrayed his own integrity...
...Moore's bestseller. To Producer, Co-Director and Star John Wayne, the war is primer-simple. There's them and there's us. Us are the Green Beret crack troops led by Wayne with a chestful of fruit salad and a no-nonsense approach to the dovish American press, personified by David Janssen. During the beating of a V.C., Reporter Janssen protests, "There's such a thing as due process." "Out here," sneers Wayne, "due process is a bullet." Built on the primitive lines of a standard western, Berets even has the South Vietnamese talking like...
...nothing happened. Christmas, exams, and a faltering candidate stopped the McCarthy movement in its tracks. McCarthy appeared to most "realistic" Harvard politicos as just another "dovish-fringe candidate without any political weight" as one "realist...
Kennedy should have been more prudent. Oregon is dovish, and McCarthy, as the first antiwar candidate in the race, was much better known there than in Indiana and Nebraska, where recognition was a major problem. Oregon is also an overwhelmingly white, middle-class state with none of the substantial minority blocs that Kennedy has come to count on for support. For once, McCarthy forces out-organized and even outspent Kennedy's camp, but it was Kennedy who conveyed the giant's presence and McCarthy the shepherd...