Word: etat
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Bunker claimed that civil rights issues should properly be handled by the states. He said that the legislation favored by Kennedy tended to centralize power is the federal government and make it potentially easier for the internal Communist conspiracy to effect a coup d'etat and control the political life of the United States from Washington...
...Jeff's stating that he would resign if our Club invited Governor Wallace to speak at Harvard alone. The majority of our Executive Committee and a majority of our members decided to extend such an invitation. That this course of events should be construed as a coup d'etat or a plot to overthrow is, at best, an unjournalistic attempt to stretch a point...
...shaken by the hue and cry that erupted last week when word of the cable's existence leaked from the Pentagon to the New York Herald Tribune. Said West Pointer Hilsman: "We've never tried to pull strings on puppets or go for a coup d'etat. The U.S. can't do this. If we ever pulled it, the Communists, who charge the Vietnamese with being puppets of the U.S., would be proved right and we would lose...
...inspiration, the government-controlled Times of Viet Nam bannered the headline, CIA FINANCING PLANNED COUP D'ETAT, over a story accusing U.S. agents of spending up to $24 million in bribes to key military men, labor leaders and civil servants to overthrow the Diem government-or at least to depose Nhu and his lady. The U.S. State Department scornfully dismissed the charges as "something out of Ian Fleming...
...fact, only a few days before, Administration officials both in Washington and Saigon had been freely confiding to newsmen that the U.S., even if it did not actively support a coup d'etat, would certainly not mind seeing one. But the Administration apparently has changed its mind about the possible benefits of a coup, for reasons perhaps explained by Pundit Walter Lippmann: "A government of Vietnamese generals, installed by the U.S., would hardly be better or more popular than Diem, and might well be worse. And so, since we cannot reform the Diem government, since we cannot replace...